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An Economy Oriented Toward Production For Market Exchange Provides The Optimal Conditions For Long-lasting And Ever-expanding Productive Capacity Based On Modern Technology.

If A Socialist Economy Is Opened Up To Increasing Degrees Of Market Forces, A Point Will Be Reached At Which Democratic Governance Becomes A Possibility.

Even In A Society As Tightly Controlled As Singapore's, The Market Creates Certain Forces Which Perhaps In The Long Run May Lead To Democracy

Institutions Provide Procedures Through Which Human Conduct Is Patterned, Compelled To Go, In Grooves Deemed Desirable By Society. And This Trick Is Performed By Making These Grooves Appear To The Individual As The Only Possible Ones.

Unlike Puppets We Have The Possibility Of Stopping In Our Movements, Looking Up And Perceiving The Machinery By Which We Have Been Moved. In This Act Lies The First Steps Towards Freedom.