Success Depends On Intuition, On Seeing What

The Essential Point To Grasp Is That In Dealing With Capitalism We Are Dealing With An Evolutionary Process

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.

Situations Emerge In The Process Of Creative Destruction In Which Many Firms May Have To Perish That Nevertheless Would Be Able To Live On Vigorously And Usefully If They Could Weather A Particular Storm.

The State Has Been Living On A Revenue Which Was Being Produced In The Private Sphere For Private Purposes And Had To Be Deflected From These Purposes By Political Force. The Theory That Construes Taxes On The Analogy Of Club Dues Or Of The Purchase Of The Services Of, Say, A Doctor Only Proves How Far Removed This Part Of The Social Sciences Is From Scientific Habits Of Mind.

Want And Effective Demand Are Not The Same Thing. If They Were, The Poorest Nations Would Be The Ones To Display The Most Vigorous Demand.