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It Is Quite Possible That Future Generations Will Look Upon Arguments About The Inferiority Of The Socialist Plan As We Look Upon Adam Smith's Argument About Joint Stock Companies Which, Also, Were Simply False.

Things Economic And Social Move By Their Own Momentum And The Ensuing Situations Compel Individuals And Groups To Behave In Certain Ways Whatever They May Wish To Do-not Indeed By Destroying Their Freedom Of Choice But By Shaping The Choosing Mentalities And By Narrowing The List Of Possibilities From Which To Choose.

The Perennial Gale Of Creative Destruction

In One Important Sense, Marxism Is A Religion. To The Believer It Presents, First, A System Of Ultimate Ends That Embody The Meaning Of Life And Are Absolute Standards By Which To Judge Events And Actions; And, Secondly, A Guide To Those Ends Which Implies A Plan Of Salvation And The Indication Of The Evil From Which Mankind, Or A Chosen Section Of Mankind, Is To Be Saved.

It Is However Always Important To Remember That The Ability To See Things In Their Correct Perspective May Be, And Often Is, Divorced From The Ability To Reason Correctly And Vice Versa. That Is Why A Man May Be A Very Good Theorist And Yet Talk Absolute Nonsense.