Marxism Unmasked from Delusion to Destruction.pdf 7471KB

eal estate, o\\'ned by- the enterprise. The concept of capital as used today
includes more than capital goods; it includes all the things owned by
the enterprise.
From this point of vieu- \*'e must raise the question also of whether or
not there are other distinctions which ma\- ha\T greater importance fiw the
practical problems of capital. If wr speak of capital >*"e discover that wr
have in mind all the total material factors of production as £ir as the>' nui>'
be used for production purposes.
If we talk about the deasions to be made concemmg the employment
of capital, we must uke into account the fact that the greater part of
the capital available is embodied in noncomrrtible or not perfectly
convertible goods. C!!apital goods arc intermedurv- factors betwren the
natural g(xxls and the finjl consumers goods In a changing \^\>rkl, in
which the pnxluctivc processes and other thing% are constanth* changing,
the question is whether \%r can use these intermed»ar>' products, which
were originally designed for a specific end use. tot am- other end. Is ii
possible. e\cn after a change in pbns and tntennons, to use for other
purposes capital accumubted or pnnluced in the pa*l \Mth ditferrnt plar»
and different intentions in mind' This i\ the prv>Wem t»l'the comrrtibilir>'
of capital giHKls
Tor more than one hundred sran. a nKnrn»eni pi>pular in the whole
world, today especially in (.ialifornu. is represented bv a gnnip otrrtormen
who call thcinsclvo "techniHrais " TeihrHxrats cntui/e the fact thai
we have %till going ot\ \ide K \ide with the nnnt nKKlern niethods of
prinluction. prinesur* ot pn>du».tu»n t»t an out^iaied tharavter And the>- arc
iu>t the t>nly i>no to critui/c this fact Thes pmnt tnit htn% \%\)ndeft'ul it
would be if' all that the> tall "evofuMiui ba4kwarxlne\s" were ehminated. if
we had all the factorio Knated in the bcM pLues. atul if all the fai tones
were equipped with the iiunt nuHlern equipment Then there wvHiUln't be
any backwjrdncM. iu>r am luaihino uni iiK'thiKls ot prvxiuition being
used w hu h jre no li>nger up to date I here was j (K^rman. ot a Kusuan
I had better vay a HaltK—stHulist who pointed mil. tot instance, how
bjckward (tcrnun agruulture wa\ He wxnild abatuion tH diminish aO
cxiMing fariiiN and iiuihine^. vulntitute the nunt nuKlern ai hiesrments o(
agruulture. and then it wxuild Ix- p*n\iNe to pr\>duie esrrvihing cheaper.
Ihc weak point of the%e plan* i\ that the lapiul accumubled in the
p.»st was in the form of capital giKnis thai represented the technical wndom
of the ages in which it wa* accumubted Although the factortrs air
out of cbte It doe\ not necrvsarilv mean that the old machines hive to
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