Professional Documents
Culture Documents
AND INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMIC ORDER
By
ELISABETH L. TAMEDLY
Part I.
SOCIALIST THEORIES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS
FOR AN INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
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INTRODUCTION 1
Part II.
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER VERSUS
STRUGGLE FOR WORLD DOMINATION:
A THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF SOCIALISM
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INTRODUCTION 125
C h a p t e r VII. P L A N N E D F O R E I G N T R A D E A N D ITS
CONSEQUENCES FOR INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMIC RELATIONS - - 150
The Place of Foreign Trade in Ideal
Commonwealths - - - - - - - - - - - 150
Plato - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 150
Thomas More - - - - - - - - - - - 151
Johann Gottlieb Fichte - - - - - - - - 153
T h e Pre-Marxian Socialists' Attitude to
International Economic Relations - - - - - 155
Robert Owen - - - - - - - - - - - 155
Saint-Simon and His Followers - - - - - 155
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - - - 156
The General Problem of International Economic
Relations under Socialism - -– 157
The Permanent Pressure on Internal Resources 158
The Impossibility of Measuring Profitability of
Individual Foreign Trade Transactions - - 160
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Trade Relations between Collectivist and Free
Market Economies 161
Trade Relations between Collectivist States - 162
Summary and Conclusions 165
Notes to Chapter VII - 167
Part III.
THE TEST BY PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
INTRODUCTION - - - 231
IDEAL COMMONWEALTHS
INTRODUCTION
And again:
For if the State was to be on the sea-coast, and to have fine harbors,
and to be deficient in many products, instead of productive of everything
—in that case it would need a mighty savior and divine lawgivers, if, with
such a character, it was to avoid having a variety of luxurious and de-
praved habits. As things are, however, there is consolation in the fact of
that eighty stades. Still, it lies unduly near the sea, and the more so be-
cause, as you say, its harbors are good; that, however, we must make the
best of. . . . Our State has compensation in the fact that it is all-produc-
tive; and since it is hilly, it cannot be highly productive as well as all-
productive; if it were, and supplied many exports, it would be flooded
in return with gold and silver money—the one condition of all, perhaps,
that is most fatal, in a State, to the acquisition of noble and just habits of
life.19
On the other hand, the State must not "get the reputation of
adopting harsh language," since
reputation in the eyes of others, whether for goodness or the reverse, is a
thing that should never be lightly esteemed.24
The State may send out "inspectors," i.e. men over fifty years
of age and of great merit, "who desire to survey the doings of
the outside world in a leisurely way."25 But they must be "in-
corruptible, so as to confirm thereby such of his native laws as
are rightly enacted, and to amend any that are deficient."26 On
their return, the inspectors will report to a "mixed body of
young men and old" on "anything important they may have
learnt elsewhere."27
But if, on the other hand, such an inspector appears to be corrupted
on his return, in spite of his pretensions to wisdom, he shall be forbidden
to associate with anyone, young or old; wherein if he obeys the magis-
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trates, he shall live as a private person, but if not, he shall be put to
death.28
This is because
the government, in order to continuously guarantee its subjects the ful-
fillment of their customary needs, must be able to rely on the fact that a
certain quantity of goods is being traded. How can it count on the
foreigner's contribution to this quantity since he is outside the govern-
ment's dominion? It is tofixand warrant the price of a commodity. How
can it succeed with respect to the foreigner if it is unable to determine
those prices which prevail in his country and at which he buys the raw
materials? If the government sets him a price which he cannot afford,
he will henceforth avoid its market and deficiency in the satisfaction of
customary needs will result. It is to guarantee to each subject the sale of
his products at the due price. How can it do so if the subject sells on
foreign markets where different commodity relations prevail which it
can neither survey nor influence?53
Furthermore,
A closed commercial state is utterly indifferent to whether there is, to
speak in customary language, a large or a small circulation of money.
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The total sum of circulating money simply represents the total quantity
of publicly traded goods.58
Beyond that, each nation must content itself with the level
of production made possible by the natural and social condi-
tions within its borders.
Questions such as: why should I not have a commodity in the same
IDEAL COMMONWEALTHS 19
perfection as that manufactured in another country, comes down to ask-
ing: why am I an inhabitant of this country, and amounts to the same as
if the oak tree should ask: why am I not a palm tree and vice versa.
Every man must content himself with the sphere in which nature has
placed him and with everything that comes from this sphere.78
NOTES TO CHAPTER I
1. Freyer, H., Die politische Insel. Eine Geschichte der Utopien von Platon bis
zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, Biographisches Institut, 1936, pp. 22-23.
IDEAL COMMONWEALTHS 21
2. Fichte, J. G., Der geschlossene HandeL·staat. Jena, Fischer, 1920 (originally
published in 1800), p. 12.
3. Freyer, H., op. cit., p. 26.
4. "It follows from what has been said that the system here established, if it is to
be realized, should be adopted or rejected in entirety." Fichte, J. G., op. cit.,
p. 103.
5. Freyer, H., op. cit., p. 26.
6. Heuss, A., "Hellas. Die archaische Zeit." Propyläen Weltgeschichte, ed., G.
Mann and A. Heuss, Berlin, Propyläen Verlag, 1962, III, p. 373.
7. Ibid.
8. "They will go to mess and live together like soldiers in a camp. . . . They alone
of all the citizens may not touch or handle silver or gold, or be under the
same roof with them or wear them, or drink from them. And this will be their
salvation, and they will be the saviors of the State." Quoted from Republic,
Book I, in Gray, A., The Socialist Tradition. Moses to Lenin. London, Long-
mans, 1946, p. 19.
9. Plato, Laws. With an English translation by R. G. Bury, London, Heinemann,
1926, Vol. I, Book I, p. 9.
10. Ibid., Vol. II, Book XII, p. 477.
11. Ibid., Book VII, p. 135.
12. Ibid., p. 149.
13. Ibid., Book XII, p. 547.
14. Ibid., p. 537.
15. Ibid., p. 521.
16. Ibid., Book VII, p. 185.
17. Ibid., Book XI, p. 413.
18. Ibid., Book VIII, p. 171.
19. Ibid., Vol. I, Book IV, pp. 257-59, italics added.
20. Ibid., Vol. II, Book VIII, p. 185.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid., p. 187.
23. Ibid., Book XII, p. 503.
24. Ibid. Plato lays down the following rules: "First, no man under forty years
old shall be permitted to go abroad to any place whatsoever; next, no man
shall be permitted to go abroad in private capacity, but in a public capacity
permission shall be granted to heralds, embassies, and certain commissions of
inspection. . . . These men, when they return home, will teach the youth that
the political institutions of other countries are inferior to their own." Ibid., p.
505.
25. Ibid., p. 507.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid., p. 509.
28. Ibid., p. 511.
29. Ibid. "The officials . . . shall have a care lest any such strangers introduce
any innovation, and they shall duly dispense justice to them, and shall hold
such intercourse as is necessary with them, but to the least extent possible."
Ibid., p. 513.
30. Guthrie, W. B., op. cit., p. 64.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid., p. 68.
33. More, Sir Thomas, The Utopia. In Latin from the edition of March 1518 and
22 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
in English from the first edition of Ralph Robynson, translated in 1551, edited
by J. H. Lupton. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1895, p. 118.
34. Ibid., p. 119.
35. Ibid., p. 140.
36. Ibid., p. 157.
37. Ibid., pp. 170-71.
38. Ibid., pp. 171-72.
39. Ibid., p. 245.
40. Ibid., p. 244.
41. Ibid., p. 154.
42. Ibid., pp. 154-55, italics added.
43. Ibid., p. 179.
44. Ibid., p. 251.
45. Guthrie, W. B., op. cit., p. 54.
46. Fichte, J. G., op. cit., pp. 4-5.
47. "I have described property as the exclusive right to actions, by no means to
things." Ibid., pp. 5-6, italics original.
48. Ibid., p. 4.
49. Ibid., p. 56, italics original.
50. Ibid., p. 14.
51. Ibid., p. 19.
52. Ibid., p. 26, italics added.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid., p. 27, italics original.
55. Ibid.
56. Ibid.
57. Ibid., p. 41, italics original.
58. "The wealth of a person does not depend on how many pieces of money he
possesses, but on how large a part of total circulating money he holds." Ibid.,
p. 42.
59. "Every possibility of world trade presupposes the availability of a universally
accepted means of exchange. . . . Hence, our task should be solved in the
following way: all world money possessed by the citizens, that is all gold and
silver, should be brought out of circulation and exchanged for a new national
currency which would be valid only inside the country." Ibid., pp. 99-100,
italics original.
60. Ibid., p. 111.
61. Ibid.
62. "The import and use of commodities which serve prestige purposes only can
at once be prohibited." Ibid., p. 115.
63. Ibid., p. 113, italics original.
64. Fichte clearly realized this and also the danger of inflation it implies. There-
fore, in order to assure the success of the monetary reform, "the government
formally renounces, for eternal times, to increase arbitrarily and to its own
advantage the quantity of circulating national money." Ibid., p. 103. The
author goes so far as demanding that the centrally fixed prices must be con-
stitutionally laid down and guaranteed.
65. Ibid., p. 114.
66. Ibid., p. 90, italics original.
67. Ibid., p. 119.
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68. Ibid., pp. 94-95, italics added.
69. Ibid., pp. 95-96.
70. Ibid.
71. Ibid., p. 98.
72. Ibid., p. 94.
73. Ibid., p. 93.
74. Ibid., p. 118 (note). This, however, is in contradiction to Fichte's apprehen-
sions against inflation. Cf. footnote 64 of this chapter.
75. "Foreign machines should be bought and imitated at home. Promise of money
defeats any prohibition." Ibid., p. 117. Moreover, the government "should
attract, from abroad, at whatever cost, great personalities who are competent
in the applied sciences. . . . By paying rewards which no other governments
can afford, people will hurry to offer their services." Ibid., p. 116.
76. Ibid., p. 119.
77. Ibid., pp. 122-23.
78. Ibid., p. 16.
CHAPTER II
But what will happen to the State? And who is going to de-
termine which "industrial class" is to produce which commo-
dities and in what quantities? Let us see what three of the
major socialists in the first half of the nineteenth century (or
"forerunners of socialism" as some choose to call them) have
to say on these subjects.
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ROBERT O W E N
NOTES TO CHAPTER II
1. See, however, Hayek, F. A., Capitalism and the Historians. London, Routledge,
1954, p. 192.
2. Bray, J. F., Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy (1838-1839). Quoted in
Beer, M., A History of British Socialism. London, Bell, 1920, Vol. I, p. 240.
3. Hall, C , The Effects of Civilisation on the People in European States (1805).
Quoted in Gray, A., op. cit., p. 264.
4. Quoted ibid., p. 267.
5. Thompson, W., An Enquiry into the Principles of the Distribution of Wealth
Most Conducive to Human Happiness (1824). Quoted in Beer, M., op. cit.,
p. 228.
6. Owen, R., The Book of the New Moral World Containing the Rational System
of Society. London, Effinghaus Wilson, 1836, p. 91.
7. Owen, R., Lectures on an Entire New State of Society. On the New Religion.
London, l82O(?),p. 17.
8. Ibid., p. 136.
9. Arrangements are proposed "by which the production and distribution of
wealth, the forming of the character and the governing of the whole, may be
the most easily and the most beneficially conducted. With this view, the dwell-
THE PRE-MARXIAN SOCIALISTS 41
ings will be erected and arranged; a portion of land will be annexed, sufficient
to enable the members of the associations to raise, at all times, a full supply of
agricultural productions; manufactures will be established. . . ." Ibid., p. 139,
italics added.
10. Ibid., p. 41.
11. "That many luxuries in meat and drinks which are ardently sought after by
the wealthy, are destructive to their health of body and mind, all physicians
as well as all intelligent persons . . . readily admit." Ibid., pp. 161-62. These
luxuries will therefore not be produced. Conversely, each member is to
dwell in a separate flat of two rooms in which he may receive friends or stay
alone as he wishes.
12. Ibid., p. 69.
13. Ibid., p. 18, italics added.
14. Ibid.
15. Report to the County of Lanark, reprinted in The Life of Robert Owen. Lon-
don, Effinghaus Wilson, 1858, IA, p. 303.
16. Lectures, p. 100.
17. "In our new and superior state of society, the sole object will be to obtain and
secure the greatest happiness for all its members—all being considered chil-
dren of the same family and entitled to the same care, perfection and advan-
tages. Arrangements will therefore be made in the first instance to produce
and distribute, in the best manner, the most valuable wealth for the use of
the individuals belonging to each family community. The parties will be
taught what is the best wealth for them to possess and use and the best
mode to produce and acquire it." Lectures, p. 99, italics added.
18. Cf. footnote 17 of this study.
19. For an extensive discussion of Owen's labor theory of value, cf. Report, pp.
278 seq.
20. Ibid., pp. 99-100, italics added.
21. Lectures, p. 139.
22. Ibid., p. 113.
23. New Moral World, p. 98.
24. Catéchisme politique des industriels. In Oeuvres publiés en 1832 par O. Rod-
rigues. Paris, Capelle, 1841, p. 48. Saint-Simon defines the "industrialists" as
all those who actually produce useful things no matter whether in agriculture
or in industry.
25. Ibid., p. 37.
26. Ibid., p. 43.
27. Vie de Saint-Simon écríte par lui-même. 1st fragment, ibid., p. XIX.
28. Catéchisme, p. 97, italics original.
29. Ibid., p. 47.
30. Hubbard, M. G., Saint-Simon. Sa vie et ses travaux. Suivi de fragments des
plus célèbres de Saint-Simon. Paris, Guülaumin, 1857, p. 74.
31. Saint-Simon, C. H., Vues sur la propriété et L· liberté (1818). In Oeuvres,
p. 268. It is an interesting detail that Saint-Simon thought himself to be in
complete agreement with the author of The Wealth of Nations.
32. Saint-Simon thought that this was Newton's law of universal gravitation.
33. Organisateur, 1819, cf. Hubbard, M. G., op. cit., p. 233.
34. De I'Industrie, 1816, quoted ibid., p. 157.
35. Nouveau Christianisme, in Oeuvres, pp. 177-78, italics original.
36. Ibid., pp. 146-47.
37. Ibid., pp. 156-57.
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38. Doctrine de Saint-Simon Exposition Premiere Année 1828-1829. 2nd ed.,
Paris, Au Bureau de l'Organisateur, 1830, p. 113.
39. Ibid., p. 107, italics original.
40. Ibid., p. 109, capital letters original.
41. Ibid., p. 191.
42. Ibid., p. 172.
43. Defined as "the privilege to levy a premium on the labor of others" (ibid., p.
182) and again: "The faculty of living on the labor of others in complete
idleness." (Ibid., p. 188.)
44. Ibid., p. 188.
45. Ibid., p. 190.
46. Ibid., p. 191.
47. Ibid., p. 192. In the original, the entire phrase is printed in italics. We quote
here, for curiosity's sake, the views held by the authors on orthodox economics
—an interesting contrast to that held by the master: "Laissez faire, laissez
passer! such has been the necessary solution, such has been the only general
principle which they have proclaimed. The economists . . . have entrusted
to personal interest the realization of the great percept without being aware
that each individual, whatever the extension of his field of vision, is incapable,
at the milieu where he lives and at the depth of the valleys, of judging the
whole which can only be discovered at the highest peak." What is the result
of competition, "this mortal struggle? A few lucky ones triumph; but at the
price of the complete ruin of innumerable victims. . . . Hence the countless
catastrophies, these commercial crises frightening the spectators and stopping
the execution of the best projects." Ibid., pp. 90-91.
48. Ibid., p. 187.
49. Ibid., pp. 193-94, italics original.
50. Ibid., p. 207.
51. Ibid., p. 187, italics original.
52. Ibid., p. 210 footnote, italics original.
53. "The distribution of the instruments and products of industry is not the only
objective of the governments of future societies; another distribution claims
the paternal cares of the directors of humanity: to inspire all men, to develop,
to cultivate in them feelings, knowledge, and liabits apt to rendering them
worthy of being members of a loving, ordered, and strong society; to prepare
each of them, according to his vocation, to contribute to it his love, intelligence,
and strength; education, in one word, which embraces the entire life of each
being, his general destination and his particular profession . . . , is the most
important aspect of the social system." Ibid., pp. 41-42, italics original.
54. Ibid., p. 147.
55. Ibid., p. 166.
56. Ibid., p. 172.
57. Ibid., p. 160.
58. Ibid.
59. Ibid., pp. 145-46.
60. Ibid., p. 151.
61. Ibid., p. 162, italics original.
62. Cole, G. D. H., A History of Socialist Thought. London, Macmillan, 1953-
61, Vol. I, p. 201.
63. Correspondance A. Micaud. December 25, 1855, quoted by H. M. Moysset
in his Introduction to La Guerre et la Paix. Paris, Riviere, 1959, p. 3.
THE PRE-MARXIAN SOCIALISTS 43
64. La propriété fait indispensable. Quoted in Maury, L., La Pensée vivante de
P. J. Proudhon. Textes choisis et prefaces. Paris, Ed. Stock, 1942, p. 10.
65. Quoted in Gide, C , and Rist, C , Histoire des doctrines économiques. 7th ed.,
Paris, Sirey, 1947, p. 329 footnote, italics original.
66. Quoted in Gray, A., op. cit., p. 245.
67. Proudhon meant by this the "community of the gifts of nature and the ex-
change of the products of labor only." Quoted in Gide, C., and Rist, C., op.
cit., p. 344.
68. Quoted in Gide, C., and Rist, C , op. cit, p. 344.
69. Correspondance, XII, pp. 220-21, quoted in Puech, J. L., and Ruyssen, T., "Le
fédéralisme dans l'oeuvre de Proudhon." Introduction to Du Principe Féd-
ératif et ouevres dìverses sur les problèmes politiques européens. Paris, Riv-
iere, 1959, p. 53, italics original.
70. La paix et la guerre, p. 482.
71. Ibid., pp. 477-78.
72. Ibid., p. 326.
73. Ibid., p. 462.
74. Ibid., p. 461.
75. Ibid., p. 466.
76. Ibid., p. 484.
77. Ibid., p. 485.
78. Ibid., p. 486, italics added.
79. Du Principe Fédératif, p. 274. It is to be expected that an absolutist govern-
ment "will be the more insufficient, oppressive, odious to its subjects and con-
sequently instable in that the State will have become larger. History has con-
served the memory of, and modern centuries have supplied examples of,
these frightful monarchies, shapeless monsters, real poltitical mastodons which
a better civilization should progressively eliminate." Ibid., p. 289.
80. Ibid., pp. 275 and 279.
81. Ibid., p. 307.
82. Ibid., pp. 319-20. Proudhon defines the socialist communities as the "minia-
ture image of all absolutist states. One who joins an association of this kind,
particularly if it is to be perpetual, is surrounded by more fetters and is sub-
ject to more charges than he had initially." Ibid., p. 319.
83. Ibid., p. 354. Proudhon adds, however, that a free economic order must not
rest on exploitation.
84. Ibid., p. 334, italics original.
85. Ibid., p. 335, italics added.
86. Ibid., p. 550.
87. This is not denied by socialist authors. But this authority will, as the Saint-
Simonians see it, be facile et douce for all those who have let themselves be
convinced of the righteousness of the final goal to be achieved. And Constantin
Pecqueur writes: "Freedom can only exist in association; in the unity of ac-
tivities, the harmony of wills, and the conformity of fundamental beliefs. . . .
But where all this is, there is necessarily also authority, the center, a force
which directs, which attracts and repels; and we repeat: this authority is
always tuned to general customs and universal morality; it is despotic, hard,
and intolerant or the reverse, just as society deserves and desires it." Théorie
nouvelle d'économie sociale et politique ou Etudes sur Vorganisation des
sociétés. Paris, Capelle, 1842, pp. 456-57. Italics added.
CHAPTER III
INTRODUCTION
He goes on:
The bourgeois relations of production are the last antagonistic form
of the social process of production; not in the sense of individual antago-
nisms, but of conflict arising from conditions surrounding the life of
individuals in society. At the same time, the productive forces developing
in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for the
solution of that antagonism. With this social formation, therefore, the
pre-history of human society comes to an end.5
The capitalist thus cannot help acting in this way; his desire
"to expand the value under his control (to accumulate capital)
springs from his special position in a particular form of organ-
ization of social production."13
Accumulation, hov/ever, means the production of more capi-
KARL MARX AND HIS FOLLOWERS 47
tal goods. But the introduction of additional productive equip-
ment sets labor free, more labor than can be employed in the
manufacture of new machinery. This surplus is called by Marx
the Reserve Army; its function is to check wages and to uphold
the rate of surplus value.
The process of capital accumulation and with it the size of
the Reserve Army are subject to cyclical fluctuations. Marx
advanced varying explanations for these fluctuations, but most
of his followers later referred to passages scattered in Volume
III of Capital, such as
The ultimate reason for all real crises always remains the poverty and
restricted consumption of the masses as opposed to the drive of capitalist
production to develop the productive forces as though only the absolute
consuming power of society constituted their limit.14
Marx's Views
We have seen that "in order that capital may be able to
arise and take control of production, a definite stage in the
development of trade is assumed."32 Capital accumulation
necessarily leads to an ever broadening extension of the market
until it embraces the whole world:
The old-established national industries . . . are dislodged by new in-
dustries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all
civilized nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw
material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries
whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of
the globe. . . . In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-
sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal interde-
pendence of nations. And as in material, so also in intellectual produc-
tion; the intellectual creations of individual nations become common
property.33
KARL MARX AND HIS FOLLOWERS 51
Elsewhere Marx writes: "The credit system and competition
of the world market [form] the basis and the vital element of
capitalist production."34 The progress of industrialization and
the development of world trade react upon and enforce each
other. Marx describes "the dual nature of this effect" as follows:
Since foreign trade cheapens partly the elements of constant capital
and partly the necessities of life for which the variable capital is ex-
changed, it tends to raise the rate of profit by increasing the rate of sur-
plus value and lowering the value of constant capital. It generally acts
in this direction by permitting an expansion of the scale of production.
It thereby hastens the process of accumulation, on the one hand, but
causes the variable capital to shrink in relation to constant capital, on the
other, and thus hastens a fall in the rate of profit. In the same way, the
expansion of foreign trade, although the basis of the capitalist mode of
production in its infancy, has become its own product . . . with the
further progress of the capitalist mode of production, through the innate
necessity of this mode of production—its need for an ever expanding
market.35
But
this coincidence of tariff protection with the financing of industry through
the banks was, with rapid industrial development, bound to encourage
tendencies for cartelization which in turn created a new interest in tariff
protection, thereby changing its function.43
Lenin's Thesis
Unlike the "opportunists," Lenin, relying heavily on Hil-
ferding, maintained that finance capital was by its nature
bellicose. The need for ever larger protected markets, he
taught, and the growing requirements of the advanced indus-
tries for raw materials make it imperative for the monopolistic
combines, backed by their respective states, to dominate large
and rich territories. Since no "free" areas remain, the capitalists
divide the world among themselves. They do this
not out of any particular malice, but because the degree of concentration
which has been reached forces them to adopt this method in order to get
profits. And they divide it in proportion to "capital," in proportion to
"strength," because there cannot be any other system of division under
commodity production and capitalism.82
GENERAL IDEAS
Let us begin with a review of the general principles on which
this new world order is to be built. Again it must be emphasized
that we are interested in the ideas of authors proposing a collec-
tivist solution to the problem of international economic order
and not in their party membership.
Science
But even if the interests of income receivers may not be
identical, another powerful factor working for compromise still
exists: science. In the first place, the progress of the natural
sciences leads to more efficient production techniques; second-
ly, it is thought, the perfection of "scientific management" con-
tributes to the rational organization of production units;11 and
thirdly, extensive statistical research12 is to be placed in the ser-
vice of economic planning. These three branches of modern
science will supply the central authority with all the necessary
information to carry out its planning task to general satisfaction
and to expand wealth to hitherto unknown dimensions.
Research is the handmaiden of planning. It helps, by elim-
inating mere opinion and whim,
to narrow the area of conflict within which compromise had to be
achieved in order that any plan may be formulated.13
Lenin concludes:
Since there can be no talk of an independent ideology being devel-
oped by the masses of the workers in the process of their movement, the
only choice is: either bourgeois or socialist ideology. There is no middle
course. . . . Hence, to belittle socialist ideology in any way, to deviate
from it in the slightest degree, means strengthening bourgeois ideology.27
Human Solidarity
Underlying this theory is the Marxist assumption of an un-
conditional class solidarity among the toiling peoples of the
world. E. Milhaud extends this solidarity, as the pre-Marxian
socialists had done before him, to embrace all mankind. This
solidarity is for him "the primordial reality of our time." Thus,
the problem does not consist of artificially establishing this solidarity, but
of allowing it to assert itself and to develop naturally, within a normal
framework, for the benefit of all.29
He concluded:
In both cases, the need for action is urgent; and the only permanent
solution is along the lines of international collective control.41
These
should be registered with the League of Nations with a special Office or
Section of its Economic Organization . . . and a measure of coordination
of the production and distribution of these various essential commodities
would be effected.64
International Migrations
As regards the force represented by labor, it has become almost a
commonplace that some countries, which suffer from serious overpopula-
tion, are without one or both of the other two factors of production, while
others, which are better off as to raw materials or capital, are still very
sparsely populated.57
Consequently,
rich nations must be compelled to make some surrender of possessions
and wealth to poor ones.69
Lawley comments:
The widespread resort to organized barter is another indication that
only collective action can solve modern economic and, in particular, trad-
ing problems.82
NOTES TO CHAPTER IV
1. "The cure for world disorder is not the replacing of closed national economies
by open ones and the encouragement of freedom of trade between nations.
What is required is international collective intervention to ensure that the
dominant force in international economic life is no longer the quest for pri-
vate and national profit. National and private economic ambition and self-
assertion must submit to the collective will." Lawley, F. E., The Growth of
Collective Economy. Vol. II: The Growth of International Collective Economy.
London, King & Son, 1938, pp. 4-5.
2. Lorwin, L. L., "The I.L.O. and World Economic Policy." International La-
bour Review No. 4, April, 1936, p. 458.
3. "Protectionnisme, Libre-échangisme et Organisation Internationale des
échanges." Report presented to the XHIth Congress of Federation Nationale
des Cooperatives de Consummation held in Lille on May 13 and 14, 1926,
reprinted in Annales de I'Economie Collective, Vol. 18, Nos. 202-4, April-
June, 1926, p. 97.
4. "To the bourgeois dilemma: protection or free trade, the proletariat provides
the answer: neither protection, nor free trade, but socialism, organization and
production, conscious control of the economy not to the advantage of the capi-
tal magnates, but to the advantage of all society which eventually will subject
to itself the economy as it has subjected nature since it had discovered its
basic laws of motion." Hilferding, R., op. cit., p. 472.
5. Thomas, A., foe. cit., p. 99.
6. These ideas were first expressed by Sismondi.
7. Veblen, T., The Theory of the Leisure Class. In What Vehlen Thought. Se-
lected Writings. Edited by W. C. Mitchell, New York, The Viking Press, 1936.
88 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
8. Dickinson, H. D., Economics of Socialism. London, Oxford University Press,
1939, p. 31.
9. Ibid., p. 36.
10. Veblen, T., op. cit., p. 226.
11. "The principle of scientific management is being applied to national industries
and to national economy. It must be carried a step further and be applied to
the whole international economic system." H. S. Person's address to the World
Social and Economic Planning Congress, quoted in Lawley, F. E., op. cit.,
p. 371.
12. Statistics—the quantitative study of social and economic phenomena—is in fact
regarded as the essential preliminary instrument of planning. "Stock taking
must evidently be the first step toward any comprehensive scheme of world
order." Archer, W., The Great Analysis. A Plea for a Rational World Order.
London, Williams & Norgate, 1931, p. 25.
13. Lorwin, L. L., loc. cit., p. 461.
14. Archer, W., op. cit., p. 21.
15. Ibid.
16. "A World Programme of Organic Economic Reconstruction." International
Labour Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 5, November, 1931, p. 504.
17. Quoted in Johnston, G. A., "Social Economic Planning." International Labour
Review, Vol. XXV, No. 1, January, 1932, pp. 76-77.
18. Ibid., p. 77. Cf. also W. Archer: "At any rate, we assume that some group of
men (and women?) capable not merely of voting 'aye' or 'no' on a cut-and-
dried proposition, but of sustained and accurate collective thinking, is en-
trusted with the task of planning the new order of things." Op. cit., p. 11,
italics added. And elsewhere: "A collective thought, emanating from a col-
lective brain, consciously organized for inquiry and reflection on a planetary
scale, would command . . . a wholly new order of critical attention." Ibid.,
p. 37.
19. Johnston, G. A., he. cit., p. 77.
20. Lenin, V. I., Preliminary Draft of Theses on the National and Colonial Ques-
tions (June, 1920). Selected Works in Twelve Volumes, translated from the
Russian and issued by the Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, Moscow and London,
Lawrence & Wishart, 1936-39, Vol. X, p. 232.
21. Lenin, V. I., The Urgent Tasks of Our Movement (December, 1900). Ibid.,
Vol. II, p. 13.
22. Lenin, V. I., What Is To Be Done? (1901-2). Ibid., p. 48, italics original.
23. "The history of all countries shows that the working class, exclusively by its
own effort, is able to develop only trade union consciousness, i.e. it may itself
realize the necessity for combining in unions, for fighting against the employers,
and for striving to compel the government to pass necessary labor legislation,
etc. The theory of socialism, however, grew out of the philosophic, historical,
and economic theories that were elaborated by the educated representatives of
the propertied classes, the intellectuals. According to their social status, the
founders of modem scientific socialism, Marx and Engels, themselves belonged
to the bourgeois intelligentsia." Ibid., p. 53.
24. Ibid.
25. Ibid., p. 70. At the time this pamphlet was written, no split had occurred as
yet between "Social Democrats" and "Communists." The Russian Party
adopted the name "communist" only in 1918.
26. Neue Zeit, 1901-2, quoted ibid., p. 79, Lenin's italics.
27. What Is To Be Done? Ibid., p. 63, italics original.
28. Communist Manifesto, in Ebenstein, W., op. cit., p. 703.
ORGANIZATION INSTEAD OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE 89
29. Milhaud, E., "La paix, la cooperation et les accords économiques entre Etats."
Ånnales de VEconomie Collective, Vol. XVII, Nos. 187-89, January-March
1925, p. 39.
30. Milhaud, E., "National Planning, International Planning, and International
Exchanges." Annals of Collective Economy, Vol. XXI, No. 1, January-March,
1950, p. 145.
31. Ibid., p. 148, italics added.
32. Speech held before the Third Commission of the League Assembly, quoted in
Milhaud, E., "La paix, etc.," he. cit., pp. 31-32.
33. Ibid., p. 32.
34. Boncour, P., quoted ibid, p. 33.
35. Quoted in Lawley, F. E., op. cit., p. 31.
36. Quoted in Milhaud, E., he. cit., p. 33.
37. I.e. "the equalization of opportunities of all countries with regard to raw ma-
terials, credits, markets, e t c '
38. Lorwin, L. L., he. cit., p. 464.
39. Lawley, F. E., op. cit., p. 160.
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid., pp. 160-61.
42. Quoted ibid., p. 20.
43. "Before the war we witnessed periodic crises due to over-production which
caused distress among the working masses, in spite of abundance of products.
Since the war we have noticed, in certain countries, the contrary phenomenon
of insufficiency of production due to the scarcity of raw materials to industry.
This phenomenon had similar results, that is to say very grave unemployment,
accompanied by the misery which follows the closing of factories or reduction
of their staff. Wherefore it is very important to demand that the League of
Nations should study the question of a just distribution of raw materials. . . ."
Quoted in Lawley, F. E., op. cit., p. 22.
44. Quoted ibid., p. 24.
45. Quoted ibid., p. 25.
46. Ibid., p. 27.
47. Ibid., p. 246.
48. G. Lansbury in a letter to The Times, August 28, 1935.
49. "The time is long overdue when the League should face manfully, with the
willing cooperation of the Great Powers, the task of putting on a mandate and
perhaps a joint mandate basis all colonial possessions. To achieve this would
remove a potent cause of war." Lawley, F. Ê., op. cit., p. 244.
50. Ibid., pp. 235-36.
51. Ibid., p. 237.
52. Ibid., p. 238.
53. But "international agreement and organization must not be on the basis of
restricted production. . . . There must be a central mechanism for attempting
to relate production to real needs and to make these needs into effective pur-
chasing power. All nations must have an equal right of access to supplies
according to needs. Prices must remunerate producers on a reasonable 'public
utility' basis but there must be no artificial maintenance of a high price level."
Ibid., pp. 238-39.
54. Ibid., pp. 239-40.
55. /fc»d.,p.242.
56. Ibid., p. 238.
90 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
57. De Michelis, G., "A World Programme of Organic Economic Reconstruction."
International Labour Review, Vol. XXIV, No. 5, November, 1931, p. 497.
58. Ibid., p. 498.
59. Ibid., p. 502.
60. "When once the routine of life was established, the chief difficulty would be
to maintain the just balance between population and subsistence; for the people
would probably show a constant tendency to breed beyond the margin fixed
by the established standard of comfort." Archer, W., op. cit., p. 15.
61. Ibid., p. 35.
62. Cole, G. D. H., op. cit., Vol. III/I, p. 74.
63. Ibid.
64. Lawley, F. E,, op. cit., p. 2.
65. Ibid., p. 3, cf. also pp. 44 seq.
66. Ibid., p. 3. Milhaud describes the same process in terms more akin to the
theory of Hilferding. Cf. "Les Accords économiques entre Etats." Annales
de I'Economie Collective, Vol. XVII, Nos. 187-89, January-March, 1925, p. 66.
67. Ibid.
68. Hall, R. L., Economic System of a Socialist State. London, Macmillan, 1937,
p. 230.
69. Lawley, F. E., op. cit., p. 5. This idea reoccurs in the closing chapter of his
book: "All large economic enterprises should be governmentalized in some
form, so as to internationalize all wealth whose utility is too general to allow
its exploitation to be reserved for one single nation." Ibid., p. 425.
70. Milhaud, E., ibid., p. 63, italics original.
71. Johnston, G. A., loc. cit., p. 74.
72. Ibid., p. 75.
73. Blackett, Sir Basil, The Function of Finance in International PL·nnkig. Quoted
in Johnston, G. A., ibid., p. 75.
74. Report of the Director. International Labor Conference, 16th Session, Geneva,
1932, p. 60.
75. Speech made at the Ordinary Assembly of Shareholders of the Midland Bank
Limited, January 30, 1933, quoted ibid., p. 60.
76. Lawley, F. E., op. cit., p. 390. The author refers to McKenna's Post-\Var Bank-
ing Policy. A Series of Addresses. London, 1928.
77. Ibid., pp. 391-92.
78. Ibid., p. 115.
79. Ibid., p. 326.
80. Milhaud, E., "Trêve de l'Or et Clearing des Transactions. Plan pour le rétab-
lissement des échanges internationaux." Annales de I'Economie Collective,
Vol. XXV, Nos. 284-88, February-June, 1933, p. 73, italics added.
81. Ibid., p. 94.
82. Lawley, F. E., op. cit., p. 334.
83. De Michelis, G., foe. cit., p. 496.
84. Milhaud, E., "Accords, etc.," loc. cit., p. 70.
85. Ibid., p. 72.
86. Thomas, A., "Protectionnisme, etc.," loc. cit., p. 109.
87. Ibid., p. 112.
88. Ibid.
89. Ibid.
90. Ibid., pp. 109-10.
ORGANIZATION INSTEAD OF LAISSEZ-FAIRE 91
91. "Politique" (journal), mentioned in text on p. 81. No. 6, June 15, 1930.
92. Daily Herald, January 31, 1935.
93. Lawley, F. E., op. cit., p. 378.
94. Franq, R., L'économie rationnelle. Quoted in Lawley, F. E., op. cit., p. 371.
95. Report presented to the Thirteenth Congress of the National Federation of
Consumers' Cooperative Societies at Lille, 1926, quoted in Lawley, F. E., op.
cit., p. 364.
96. "L'O.I.T. face au problème de l'organisation de l'économie. Les derniers en-
seignements et le supreme appel d'Albert Thomas." Annales de TEconomie
Collective, Vol. XXIX, Nos. 335-42, May-December, 1937, p. 166.
97. Lawley, F. E., op. cit., p. 374.
98. "The theory of the capitalist market price, which dies hard among economists,
will then have died. Market price, under capitalism, has no relation to the
true economic price which is based on actual economic services conceived as
collective functions, without reference to the need, under private capitalism,
of assigning part of the product of industry to be utilized as private profit in
a competitive market." Ibid., pp. 387-88.
99. Ibid., p. 388.
100. Ibid., p. 392.
101. Ibid., pp. 386-87.
102. Ibid., p. 390.
103. Ibid., pp. 374-75.
104. Ibid., italics added.
CHAPTER V
Socialism will
lead to the complete elimination of all national friction, of all national
suspicion, to the speedy establishment of intimacy between and amalga-
mation of nations, culminating in the "withering away" of the state.14
Consequently,
the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things,
and by the conduct of processes of production. The state is not "abol-
ished." It withers away.25
Lenin
The "higher phase of communistic society," Lenin main-
tained, was foreseen, though never "promised" by the great so-
cialists, since it "presupposed both a productivity of labor un-
like the present and a person unlike the present man in the
street."27 For the time being,
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the Socialists demand the strictest control by society and by the state of
the amount of labor and the amount of consumption. But this control
must start with the expropriation of the capitalists and must be carried
o u t . . . by a state of armed workers.28
However,
our work of organizing nation-wide accounting and control of production
and distribution under the guidance of the proletariat has lagged very
much behind our work of directly expropriating the expropriators.31
Stalin
Stalin, with more than a decade of centralized state planning
to look back upon, contributed three "new" aspects to the theory
of socialist economy. The first refers to the character of eco-
nomic laws: while it is true that they exist independently of the
mode of production adopted,
it has been proven that society is not powerless with respect to the laws;
that it can, by knowing the economic laws and by relying on them, limit
the sphere of their action, use them in the interest of society and take
them into account as this is done with the forces of nature and its laws.40
This does not mean, however, that the law of value directs
production with respect either to its volume or to its propor-
tions, as under capitalism.44 It is only allowed to work insofar
as it does not collide with the law of proportional and harmo-
nious development and the centrally established plans based
upon it. If its sphere of action had a greater scope, as some com-
rades suggested that it should have, one could rightly ask:
Why should not our light industries be fundamentally developed
since they are more remunerative than heavy industry which is sometimes
less remunerative or at times not remunerative at all? . . . It is clear that,
by following the recommendations of these comrades, we had to re-
nounce the primacy of the production of the means of production on the
production of consumer goods. . . . This would mean the impossibility of
an increasing growth of our national economy.45
This is how the author views the nature of the socialist world
market:
The experience of this cooperation shows that no capitalist country
could have given equally efficient and technically qualified assistance to
the people's democracies than that which they received from the Soviet
Union. The fact is that on the basis of this cooperation there is the sin-
cere desire to help one another and to achieve general economic progress.
As a result, we observe rapid industrial development in these countries.
One can say with assurance that, with such a rhythm of industrial devel-
opment, these countries will soon no longer need to import goods from
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capitalist countries, but will themselves feel the necessity of selling the
surplus of their production abroad.47
States are thus not only territorial and political units, they
are also the embodiment of ideas. In our day, and this is
Spengler's main contribution, two sets of ideas are clashing: the
Prussian state idea and British parliamentary liberalism.
English society is founded on the difference between rich and poor,
the Prussian one on that of command and obedience.55
Therefore,
the old Prussian spirit and the socialist way of thinking, which today hate
each other with the hatred of brothers, are one and the same.58
Yet, the results of his analysis led the author who wrote these
lines to the following complementary remarks:
Strictly speaking . . . , this harmony of interests applies without any
serious qualification to the exchange of goods. . . .102 The import and
export of capital, although beneficial to both parties, may give rise to
conflicts of interest between debtor and creditor communities. . . . The
migration of peoples, especially where they are of widely different social
conditions, may also be grounds of economic disharmony. . . . War for
possession of territory is conceivable between a community with a sparse
population, abundant national resources and a high standard of life and
a community with a dense population, few natural resources and a low
standard of life.103
NOTES TO CHAPTER V
1. Communist Manifesto, quoted in Ebenstein, W., op. cit., p. 692.
2. Quoted ibid., p. 697.
3. Quoted ibid., p. 703.
4. Quoted ibid., p. 701.
5. Critique of the Gotha Programme. Published by F. Engels in Neue Zeit, 1891,
newly translated by Bottomore, T. B., in Karl Marx. Selected Writings in
Sociolgy and Social Philosophy. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1964, p. 258.
6. Ibid., p. 256.
7. Marx, K., Adresse des Generalrats (der internatwnaL·n Arbeiter-Assoziation)
über den Bürgerkrieg in Frankreich 1871. In Borkenau, F. (ed.), Karl Marx.
Frankfurt/M., Fischer, 1956, p. 173.
8. Ibid., p. 176.
9. Chang, S. H. M., The Marxian Theory of the State. Ph.D. Dissertation, Phila-
delphia, University of Pennsylvania, 1931, p. 116.
10. Farner, K., and Pinkus, R. (eds.), Der Weg des Sozialismus. Quellen und
THE COLLECTIVIST STATE 115
Dokumente vom Erfurter Programm 1891 bis zur Erklärung von Havanna 1962.
Hamburg, Rowohlt, 1964, p. 21.
11. Lenin, V. I., The National Question in Our Programme (July, 1903). Selected
Works, Vol. II, p. 330, italics original.
12. The Right of Nations to Self-Determination. New York, International Pub-
lishers, 1951, p. 72.
13. Ibid., p. 76.
14. Ibid., p. 90.
15. Preliminary Draft of Theses on the National and Colonial Questions, prepared
for the Second Congress of the Communist International in June, 1920. Point
8. Selected Works, Vol. VIII, p. 234.
16. Reprinted in Marxism and the National and Colonial Question. New York,
International Publishers, 1936, p. 79.
17. Ibid., p. 123.
18. Ibid., p. 125, italics added.
19. Ibid., p. 168, italics added.
20. Critique of the Gotha Programme, quoted in Bottomore, T. B., op. cit., pp.
256-57, italics original.
21. Ibid., pp. 257-58.
22. Engels, F., Herrn Eugen Dührings Umwäízungen der Wissenschaft. 6th ed.,
Stuttgart, Dietz, 1907, p. 300.
23. Ibid., pp. 335-36, italics original.
24. Ibid., p. 304.
25. Ibid., p. 302, italics original.
26. Ibid., p. 320. Karl Kautsky envisages the future international order as follows:
"State boundaries will lose . . . the character they had up to the present. Since
production will no longer be private, but social, since the profit of individual
entrepreneurs ceases to be their propelling force, all 'protective tariffs,' the
source of artificial profits and capital accumulation, will lose their significance.
But, with the abolition of tariffs the seclusion of states into artificial economic
units will also come to an end." Die Befreiung der Nationen. Stuttgart, Dietz,
1917, p. 46. Elsewhere, however, the same author writes: "The final goal of
development, once the proletariat has achieved political power, is the unifica-
tion of all production units into one huge state firm, that is the transformation
of the state into one single economic cooperative. . . . Production of commodi-
ties and private ownership of the means of production are overcome; the new
economic cooperative which grows out of the state possesses all means of pro-
duction which it needs and it produces essentially by itself all that is necessary
to itself and to its members." Grundsätze und Forderungen der Sozialdemok-
ratie, 2nd ed., Berlin, Verlag Vorwärts, 1898, p. 25, italics original.
27. State and Revolution. Selected WorL·, Vol. VII, pp. 88-89, italics added.
28. Ibid., p. 89, italics original. "The Soviet government is nothing more nor less
than the organizational form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, the dicta-
torship of the advanced class." Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government.
Selected Works, Vol. VII, p. 338.
29. The Fundamental Tasks of the Party after the Seizure of Power by the Pro-
letariat, Vol. VII, p. 315.
30. Ibid., p. 287.
31. Ibid., p. 325.
32. State and Revolution, he. cit., pp. 92-93.
33. "We, the party of the proletariat, have no other way of acquiring the ability to
organize large-scale production of the trust-type except by acquiring it from
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thefirst-classcapitalist specialists." Fundamental Tasks, loc. cit., p. 375, italics
original.
34. Ibid., p. 328, italics original.
35. Immediate Tasks, loc. cit., p. 330.
36. Fundamental Tasks, loc. cit., pp. 341-42, italics added. Lenin continues:
"Given ideal class consciousness and discipline on the part of those taking
part in the common work, this subordination would more than anything re-
mind one of the mild leadership of a conductor of an orchestra. It may assume
the sharp forms of a dictatorship if ideal discipline and class consciousness are
lacking. But be that as it may, unquestioning submission to a single will is
absolutely necessary for the success of labor processes that are based on large-
scale industry. . . . The technical, economic and historical necessity of this is
obvious, and all those who have thought about socialism have always regarded
it as one of the conditions of socialism." Ibid., p. 342, italics original.
37. Ibid., p. 387. It may, here, be referred to a controversy between Lenin on the
one and Trotsky and Bucharin on the other side, who reproached the former
of approaching production problems "politically" instead of "economically."
This is how Lenin defends himself: "The theoretical uncorrectness of this is
most striking. Politics are the concentrated expression of economics. . . .
Politics cannot but have precedence over economics. To argue differently means
forgetting the ABC of Marxism. . . . Without a proper political approach to the
subject the given class cannot maintain its rule, and consequently cannot solve
its own production problems." Once Again the Trade Unions. The Present
Situation and the Mistakes of Trotsky and Bucharin (January, 1921). Selected
Works, Vol. IX, pp. 54-55, italics added.
38. Ibid.
39. Fundamental Tasks, he. cit., p. 326, italics added.
40. Les problèmes économiques du socialisme en U.R.S.S. Numéro special des
Cahiers du communisme, Revue théorique et politique mensuelle du Comité
Central du Parti Communiste Français, November, 1952, p. 6.
41. Ibid., p. 7.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid., p. 16.
44. "Naturally not. In reality, in our economic system the law of value asserts it-
self within a strictly limited framework." Ibid.
45. Ibid., pp. 17-18. Increasing economic growth is regarded as another "funda-
mental law of socialism." As concerns the problem of profitability, Stalin ex-
plains: "If one considers profitability not from the point of view of the various
enterprises or branches of production, nor for the period of one single year,
but from the point of view of the entire national economy and for a period of
ten to fifteen years for example—which would be the only means of correctly
approaching the question . . . , then the momentary and precarious profitability
of the various enterprises and branches of production cannot maintain any
comparison with the superior form of a solid and constant profitability: the
profitability which we derive from the effect of the law of harmonious develop-
ment and planning of national economy." Ibid., p. 18.
46. Ibid., pp. 22-23, italics added.
47. Ibid., p. 23.
48. It must be stressed that, in what follows, we are not concerned with describing
the real nature of the Prussian state, the appreciation of which would re-
quire a separate, differentiated study. We are interested solely in the inter-
pretation which Prussianism received by certain German political thinkers and
in the influence of this interpretation on the theory of the collectivist state.
49. "Personality means not only greatest possible autonomy, but also greatest pos-
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sible autarky and a harmonious union and development of all inner forces and
abilities." Meinecke, F., Weltbürgertum und NationaL·taat. Studien zur Gene-
sis des deutschen NationaL·taates. München and Berlin, O. Oldenbourg, 1919,
p. 819.
50. Müller, A., Die Elemente der Staatskunst. Berlin, 1809, Vol. I, p. 51.
51. Müller, A., Vorlesungen über Friedrich II. Quoted in Meinecke, F., op. cit,, p.
152.
52. Die Elemente der Staatskunst, Vol. Ill, p. 215.
53. "How would he be able to omnipresently permeate the life of these powerful
individuals?" Ibid., Vol. I, p. 283.
54. Spengler, O., Preussentum und Sozialismus. München, Becksche Verlagsbuch-
handlung, 1919, p. 54, italics added.
55. Ibid., p. 45.
56. Ibid., p. 8.
57. Ibid., p. 43.
58. "What really exists, the international of slogans, Marxism as a phrase, can only
for decades and, at that, to a much lesser degree than the noise of congresses
and the optimism of proclamations makes one assume, awaken in the workers
of all countries a feeling of solidarity. In reality, this union is restricted to the
belief that it exists." Ibid., p. 83.
59. Ibid., pp. 84-85, italics original.
60. Quoted in Butler, R. D., The Roots of National·Sociaüsm. London, Faber &
Faber, 1941, p. 258.
61. Quoted ibid.
62. Quoted ibid., p. 262. Moeller observes "a regrouping of men and nations. All
anti-liberal forces are combining against everything that is liberal." Quoted
ibid., p. 259.
63. Kautsky, K., Sozialisten und Krieg. Ein Beitrag zur Ideengeschichte des Sozial-
ismus von den Hussiten bis zum Völkerbund. Prag, Orbis, 1937, p. 345.
64. Winnig, A., "Die Kolonien und die Arbeiter." Sozialistische Monatshefte, May
18, 1915, p. 222. The reaction of the French socialists to the German socialists'
suggestion to surrender overseas territories in the name of international justice
and proletarian brotherhood is well summarized by the socialist Charles And-
ler: "Since it [our colonial empire, E.T.] was constituted at the immense ex-
penditure of billions, scientific efforts and blood, it may be a good teutonic
joke to intend to persuade us that it must be 'shared' with the more prolific
countries of industrial Europe, but not much more of this is needed to increase,
in the French socialists, that repugnance against the German 'comradeship'
which is intensified after each international congress." Le socialisme imperia-
listic dans I'Allemagne contemporaine. Dossier d'une polémique avec J. ]aurès
(1912-13). Paris, Bossard, 1918, p. 57.
65. Schippel, M., "Mitteleuropa und Partei." Sozialistische Monatshefte, May 31,
1916, p. 541.
66. Cohen, M., "Sozialdemokratische Aussenpolitik und sozialdemokratischer Par-
teitag." Ibid., October 4, 1920, p. 741.
67. Poetzsch, H., "Der Krieg und die sozialistische Internationale." Ibid., Decem-
ber 9,1914, p. 1227.
68. Sombart, W., Deutscher Sozialismus. Berlin-Charlottenburg, Buchholz &
Weisswange, 1934, p. 212. Cf. also the socialist professor Plenge: "It is high
time to recognize the fact that socialism must be power policy, because it is
organization." Quoted from an article in the socialist journal Die Glocke in
Hayek, F. A., The Road to Serfdom. London, Routledge, 1944, p. 128, italics
added.
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69. Deutscher Sozialismus, p. 213, italics added.
70. Ibid., p. 280.
71. Ibid., p. 284, italics added. The author continues: "It is self-evident from what
has just been said that German socialism rejects the hitherto prevailing order
of the world economy as contrary to its innermost nature."
72. "The Theory of Planned Economy. A Study of Some Recent Works." Inter-
national Labour Review, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, September, 1937, pp. 371-93.
73. This author distinguishes between nationalistic planning, such as is increasingly
being adopted by capitalist governments, and planning "under the right aus-
pices" which is to be effected "by those who mean to use it . . . for the libera-
tion of the vast productive energy which is now lying unused all over the world
by creating a system of organized international exchange on a basis of mutual
advantage and superseding tariffs and other restrictive devices by large-scale
arrangements for the collective interchange of complementary products." This
is what Cole calls a "fully developed system of international planning." Cf.
"The Planning of International Trade." In: Studies of World Economics. Lon-
don, Macmillan, 1935, p. 185.
74. Ibid., p. 178.
75. "In the particular case of a collectivist economy, especially during the period
of construction, the danger of external influences is much greater [than in a
liberal-individualistic economic order, E.T.]. Free communication with for-
eigners may lead to wastes of energy and, to say the least, tend to constitute,
within, a heterogeneous economic sector; its contacts with the dominant col-
lectivist system create additional difficulties. Moreover, free relations with the
outside world cannot even be thought of in a system in which economic ac-
tivity is no longer a private affair; from the moment the state and its agencies
administer the whole of economic activity, there is no reason for making an
exception in favor of external relations and to withdraw them from its control."
Mossé, R., L'économie collectiviste. Paris, Pichon, 1939, p. 179, italics added.
76. Ibid., p. 180. Cf. also Hall, R. L., Economic System of a Socialist State. Lon-
don, Macmillan, 1937, p. 218: Before any foreign trade is to take place, the
"Socialist state . . . should first decide the question as to whether there are any
key industries which are necessary to the economic structure or to the conduct
of any wars in which it has reason to expect that it may be involved. . . . The
importance to be attached to this factor will obviously depend on the likelihood
of supplies being interrupted, whether by wars or by other circumstances which
may alter the world supplies." As to the infant industry argument, H. D. Dick-
inson writes: "A socialist community could foster infant industries without the
fear that they would become infant Gargantuas devouring the substance of
whole provinces in their greed. No private vested interests would be created
by such a policy of development nor would protected industries develop that
penumbra of submarginal undertakings which makes it almost impossible to
remove protection from an industry under capitalism even though the more
efficient establishments no longer need it." Economics of Socialism, p. 175.
77. Mossé, R., op. cit., p. 181. The whole passage is printed in italics.
78. Ibid., p. 182.
79. Ibid.
80. These conditions must, according to Dickinson, include "the right of individ-
uals to order books and newspapers from abroad," this being "an essential
guarantee of political freedom." Op. cit., p. 178, footnote 2.
81. Mossé, R., op. cit., p. 184, italics original.
82. Ibid., p. 190.
83. Dickinson, H. D., op. cit., p. 173.
84. Mossé, R., op. cit., pp. 190-91. In the original, this passage is all in italics.
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85. Ibid., p. 192.
86. Ibid., p. 193.
87. Ibid., p. 195, italics original.
88. Dickinson, H. D., op. cit., p. 181.
89. Mossé, R., op. cit., p. 199.
90. Ibid.
91. "The real problem is to maintain, and even to develop, external economic re-
lations without disturbing the internal structure." Ibid., p. 203.
92. Ibid., italics original.
93. Hobson, J. A., op. cit., p. 85.
94. "The collectivist state's own rate of interest represents its estimate of the mar-
ginal productivity of its own capital." Hall, R. L., op. cit., pp. 27-28.
95. I.e. balancing capital export against the use of additional imports bought from
its proceeds.
96. Dickinson, H. D., op. cit., p. 182, italics added.
97. Hall, R. L., op. cit., p. 228.
98. Ibid., p. 229.
99. Ibid.
100. Dickinson, H. D., op. cít., p. 182.
101. Ibid., p. 187.
102. Cf., however, ibid., p. 177, where Dickinson observes: "Where a socialist com-
munity was trading with another socialist community (if such existed) or with
a capitalist community that had adopted a now popular policy of totalitarian
state regulation of foreign trade, a situation would arise similar to that called
'bilateral monopoly' by the theoretical economists, in which it is probable that
there is no determinate stable position of equilibrium, but in which either
party has an incentive to get the better of the other by the use of fraud and
force." Italics added.
103. Ibid.
104. "The spread of birth-control throughout the world is leading to a state of
affairs in which population dearth and not population pressure is the most
likely danger to civilization." Ibid., pp. 187-88.
105. Ibid., p. 172, footnote.
106. Bettelheim, C , L·es problèmes théoriques et pratiques de la pL·nif\cation. 2nd
ed., Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1951, p. 345. The English trans-
lation was taken from the English edition. Bettelheim calls "relative labor
costs" those which arise as a result of the fact that national economic policies
are being independent of the world economy. They can only be overcome and
replaced by absolute labor costs if the world economy becomes one planned
unit so that "each region would specialize in the kinds of production for which
it was absolutely (and not only relatively) best situated." Ibid., p. 354, foot-
note 2.
107. Quoted in Hayek, F. A., op. cit., p. 128, italics added.
CONCLUSION TO PART I
THE PROBLEM
"The problem," writes Hayek, "which the director of all
economic activities of a community would have to face, would
130 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
only be similar to those solved by an engineer if the order of
importance of the different needs of the community were fixed
in such a definite and absolute way that provision of one could
always be made irrespective of cost. If it were possible for him
first to decide on the best way to produce the necessary supply
of say food as the most important need, as if it were the only
need, and would think about the supply of say clothing, only if
and when some means were left over after the demand for food
had been fully satisfied, then there would be no economic prob-
lem. . . . But the task would cease to be merely technological in
character and would assume an entirely different nature if it
were further postulated that as many resources as possible
should be left over for other purposes. Then the question arises,
what is a greater quantity of resources. If one engineer pro-
posed a method which would leave a great deal of land but
only little labor for other purposes, while another would leave
much labor and little land, how in the absence of any standard
of value could it be decided which was the greater quantity? . . .
The economic problem arises therefore as soon as different pur-
poses compete for available resources. And the criterion of its
presence is that costs have to be taken into account. Costs here,
as anywhere, mean nothing but the advantages to be derived
from the use of given resources in other directions."8
It follows that, because productive resources are scarce with
respect to human wants, costs are a fundamental economic cate-
gory in every kind of economic order. It is the "fact that one
central authority has to solve the economic problem of distrib-
uting a limited amount of resources between a practically in-
finite number of competing purposes that constitutes the prob-
lem of socialism as a method."9 This infinite number of com-
peting purposes naturally includes production for foreign mar-
kets, hence the cost problem is primarily relevant also for in-
ternational economic transactions. On its solution depends not
only the rational planning of foreign trade, but the nature of
socialist international economic relations in general.
CRITICAL OBJECTIONS
Is the problem of rational resource allocation under socialism
solved by this solution? It invites several critical remarks which
raise doubts against a promptly given affirmative answer. In
the first place, a contradiction exists between economic plan-
ning presupposed also by the "Market Solution," being defined
as "the making of major economic decisions . . . by the conscious
control of a determinate authority,"5* and the requirement of
consumers' sovereignty. Either production is governed by con-
sumers' preferences, or by conscious central control; it cannot
be loyal to both. This antinomy clearly appears when Dickin-
son, at the end of his book, proposes to include consumer goods
in the price lists to be centrally fixed.55 The author, besides for-
getting that he had earlier derived costs of production from pre-
suming autonomous consumer goods prices, is thus forced, by
the logic of his own arguments, to substitute comprehensive
state planning for mere price fixing on the basis of consumers'
sovereignty from which he had started. "Thus," one can read
in the Introduction to his inquiry "unplanned collectivism, al-
though logically thinkable, is unlikely to occur in practice."56
The dilemma between central planning and individual de-
cision making also appears, secondly, when these economists
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speak of price fixing in general. It is not said in what intervals
prices are to be readjusted. Lange once remarked that such ad-
justments would "constantly" be made. However, in the race
between the continual changes of economic data and the adap-
tation of prices to them, the central authority could at best keep
constant the distance between the two. But, since these changes
are far from proceeding regularly, it is to be expected that price
fixing would increasingly lag behind the events. Dickinson
sometimes speaks of "falling" and "rising," then again of "re-
duced" and "raised" prices. But if prices are adjusted only oc-
casionally in accordance with ex post surpluses and deficits,
how will the resulting disequilibria be corrected? Will the
commodities which are more scarce than indicated by their
price in the meantime be rationed or will the last comers have
to go without them even if, in the case of primary and interme-
diary goods, this may imply a temporary interruption of pro-
duction? Socialists assert that the advantages of central price
fixing would be considerable since the state agency would be
able, from a "glass house," to follow the relevant economic
data." But we have already seen that this heirloom from Saint-
Simonism is an illusion in the absence of rational value calcu-
lations.
Thus, the immediate consequence of price disequilibria will
be the emergence, among the responsible managers, of losers
and winners. But since prices are no longer determined by
anonymous market forces, but by men, who will be on the
winning and who will be on the losing side will depend on good
personal connections with high state officials rather than on
managerial skill and effort. The only possibility of taking en-
ergetic measures against the vested interests and abuses thus
generated would be complete state planning.
Thirdly, the "terms on which alternatives are offered," a con-
cept which essentially belongs to the engineer's competence,
can by no means fulfill the same functions as do market prices.
By substituting one for the other, Lange confused a technical
with an economic problem. This becomes evident if we remem-
ber that the most precise production possibilities curve—which,
at that, can be drawn for two goods only—taken by itself leaves
open an infinite number of choices. The final choice can only
be made on the basis of exchange values which alone are able to
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indicate the point at which one of the innumerable, technically
determined combinations of resources optimally corresponds
to market requirements. Hayek anticipated the answer to
Lange's objections when he described the real problems in-
volved in this procedure as follows:
"It is impossible to decide rationally how much material
and new machinery should be assigned to any one enterprise
and at what price (in an accounting sense) it will be rational
to do so, without also deciding at the same time whether and
in which way the machinery and tools already in use should con-
tinue to be used or be disposed of. . . . In order to be able to do
so it will be necessary to treat every machine, tool or building
not just as one of a class of physically similar objects, but as an
individual whose usefulness is determined by its particular
wear and tear, its location and so on. . . . This means that in
order to achieve that degree of economy in this respect which
is secured by the competitive system, the calculations of the
central planning authority would have to treat the existing body
of instrumental goods as being constituted of almost as many
different types of goods as there are individual units."58
This problem is still more complicated by the fact that the
quantity of available resources is not determined, as both Lange
and Dickinson have presumed. What is known, perhaps, is the
total amount of coal, mineral, etc. reserves of which a country
disposes; but the question still remains how much of it is to be
mined in a given year and whether the exploitation of such na-
tural resources is economic at all.
Thus, a collectivist economic order must necessarily and
admittedly be based on some major initial decisions taken, as
Stalin had said, from the viewpoint of the national economy as
a whole and with profitability considerations covering one or
more decades—to put it bluntly, on a political, not an economic,
judgment. Under collectivism, as we have seen, the planning
authority determines both national demand and supply. Hence,
there cannot exist any prices or "exchange ratios" other than
those fixed by the government itself; and these prices are, con-
sequently, unsuitable for controlling the efficiency of produc-
tion.
But we must now ask: since the "Market Solution" of social-
ism inevitably leads to comprehensive national planning, is it
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not conceivable to nationalize the means of production, yet
leave all enterprises free to continue their business on a com-
petitive market, with free prices, as under capitalism? This
raises the fundamental question of whether we can retain in-
dividual economic leadership without private ownership of the
means of production.
In a liberal economic order, it is the profit and loss account
of a firm which, on the basis of past performance, decides
whether the capital at the entrepreneur's disposal should be ex-
panded, contracted, or whether the firm should be shut down.
It is therefore the extent to which the risk taking of the entre-
preneur was economically justified that determines the contin-
ued exercise of his functions, or his removal from his responsi-
bilities. But his willingness to take risks depends on his bal-
ancing possible losses against prospective gains. He alone—or
the shareholders to whom he is responsible—must bear the full
consequences of his actions and must suffer a reduction of his
(their) assets if his calculations and his decisions based on them
have ended in failure. The fact that the owner of capital has the
choice between investing his funds in his own enterprise and
offering them on the capital market enables him to compare
his prospective gains (and possible losses) with the interest rates
—which include premiums corresponding to the different de-
grees of risk—prevailing on that market. It thereby provides
a wholesome check for too bold undertakings. Economically
speaking, the price mechanism, if it is allowed to work properly
on the capital market as well, directs scarce productive resources
to those places where they are most rationally used with respect
to consumers' preferences; but it becomes effective only if pri-
vate ownership of the means of production is guaranteed.
The problem of risk will continue to exist in a socialist econ-
omy based on competition and consumers' freedom of choice,
and with it, the losses due to it. But now these losses are borne
by the community as a whole, that is, the state organ represent-
ing it. Therefore, it is this agency which decides on the allo-
cation of capital to the individual commercial and productive
agencies. But what is the criterion according to which the le-
gitimacy of a risk and, correspondingly, the profitability of an
undertaking is to be judged? "The decision about the amount
of capital to be given to an individual entrepreneur and the de-
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cision thereby involved concerning the size of an individual
firm under a single control are in effect decisions about the most
appropriate combination of resources. It will rest with the cen-
tral authority to decide whether one plant located at one place
should expand rather than another plant situated elsewhere.
All this involves planning on the part of the central authority
on much the same line as if it were actually running the en-
terprise."59 But who is now to be made responsible for possible
mistakes? A socialist economy based on free competition will
be characterized by recurring conflicts of competence, with
managers and planning officials each blaming the other. "It
will at best be a system of quasi-competition where the person
really responsible will not be the entrepreneur, but the official
who approves his decisions and where in consequence all the
difficulties will arise in connection with freedom of initiative
and the assessment of responsibility which are usually associ-
ated with bureaucracy."60
We can therefore conclude that the device of a competitive
socialist system relieves us neither theoretically nor practically
from the basic choice between the two kinds of economic order
and their respective solutions of resource allocation. Indeed,
the "principle of planning" constitutes the only alternative to
the price mechanism.
Enough has been said on this subject to prove that this is not
so. Costs cannot be assessed through the compilation of statis-
tical data; they have to be minimized with the aid of economic
calculations. Material balances can only be drawn up when
the basic valuations have taken place; quantity alone never in-
dicates the extent to which scarcity is being overcome. The
"principle of planning," therefore, fails to solve the problem of
rational resource allocation under socialism.
NOTES TO CHAPTER VI
4. Eucken, W., Grundsätze der Wirtschaftspolitik. Ed. Eucken, E., and Hensel, K.
P., Bern/Tübingen, Francke/Mohr, 1952, p. 211.
5. "The fact that in the present order of things . . . economic problems are not
solved by the conscious decision of anybody has the effect that most people are
not conscious of their existence. Decisions whether and how much to produce
are economic decisions in this sense. But the making of such decisions by a
single individual is only part of the solution of the economic problem involved.
The person making such a decision makes it on the basis of given prices. The
fact that by this decision he influences these prices to a certain, probably very
small, extent, will not influence his choice. The other part of the problem is
solved by the functioning of the price system. But it is solved in a way which
only a systematic study of the working of this system reveals" and, for its work-
ing, "it is not necessary . . . that anybody should understand it." Hayek, F. A.
(ed.), Collectivist Economic PL·nning. Critical Studies on the Possibilities of
Socialism. London, Routledge, 1935, pp. 7-8.
6. Hayek, F. A. (ed.), Capitalism and the Historians. London, Routledge, 1954,
p. 23.
7. Collectivist Economic PL·nning, p. 12.
8. Ibid., pp. 5-6.
9. Ibid., pp. 16-17.
10. Brutzkus, B., Economic PL·nning in Soviet Russia. London, Routledge, 1935, p.
12.
11. Ibid., p. 13.
12. Cf. also Neurath, O., Durch die Kriegswirtschaft zur Naturalwirtschaft.
München, 1919, and Bauer, O., Der Weg zum Sozialismus. Wien, 1899.
13. "For example, in applying his method to agriculture, he makes this sort of
calculation: the production of 1,000 units of grain requires the following ex-
penditure: 30 units of labor, 90 units of means of subsistence, 8.6 units of land,
0.2 units of transport, 25.6 units of buildings, 0.4 units of stock, 1.5 units of
materials, 0.03 units of heating." Brutzkus, B., op. cit., p. 14.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., p. 16.
16. Ibid., p. 17.
17. Ibid., p. 19.
18. "Thus, the fact that rope made in factories is, according to the labor account,
less costly than that made by the home-workers, is no reason to conclude that
rope factories must be enlarged; if the community suffers from a shortage of
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capital, then it is more likely that the rope factories will have to be liquidated
after the existing machines are worn out and that the entire production of rope
will have to be transferred to the home-workers. In actual fact our impover-
ished state has again and again acted in this way, and it has been right to do
so." Ibid., p. 21.
19. Cf. Maier, K. F., "Der Wirkungsgrad der Wirtschaftsordnung." In ORDO,
Jahrbuch †ür die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesettschaft. Vol. V, Düssel-
dorf-München, Küpper vorm. G. Bondi, 1953, pp. 51-61.
20. Reprinted in Collectivist Economic PL·nning, Appendix, pp. 245-90.
21. Ibid., p. 246.
22. Ibid., p. 274.
23. Ibid., p. 290.
24. Maier, K. F., loc. cit., p. 52.
25. "The determination of the coefficients economically most advantageous can
only be done in an experimental way and not on a small scale, as could be
done in a laboratory; but with experiments on a very large scale, because often
the advantage of the variation has its origin precisely in a new and greater
dimension of the undertaking. Experiments may be successful in the same
sense that they may lead to a lower cost combination of factors; or they may
be unsuccessful, in which case the particular organization may not be copied
and repeated and others will be preferred which experimentally have given
better results." Collectivist Economic PL·nning, p. 288, italics original.
26. Ibid.
27. It would be interesting to investigate further the effect that modern computers
may have on efficient resource allocation under collectivism. They introduce,
as H. S. Simpson of Columbia's Graduate School of Business has pointed out,
the possibility of calculating the rate of change of change. But, the accelerating
pace of social and economic change at the same time results in an urgency to
act more speedily on management decisions. This necessity therefore demands
a greatly enhanced overall flexibility of the economic system. But the major
brake on progress in all societies is not technology, but human character. This
question therefore boils down to the problem of what incentives are built into
an economic order to encourage a managerial behavior corresponding to the
newly created possibilities. Some aspects of this problem will be described in
Part III.
28. Robbins, L., The Great Depression. London, Macmillan, 1934, p. 151.
29. Ibid.
30. Mises, L. v., "Economic Calculations in the Socialist Commonwealth." Trans-
lated and reprinted in Collectivist Economic PL·nning, pp. 87-130.
31. In fact, it fulfills three distinct functions: it determines the initial allocation of
resources to their various productive uses, it controls production processes al-
ready under way, and it makes it possible to reduce all goods and services to a
common unit of account.
32. Collectivist Economic PL·nning, p. 101.
33. However, since it belongs to the exclusive competence of the central admini-
stration to determine the total volume of consumption goods, the prices affect
only the distribution of the planned stock of commodities among the citizens.
Centralized planning is thus incompatible with consumers' sovereignty.
34. Collectivist Economic PL·nning, p. 91.
35. Ibid., p. 92.
36. Ibid., p. 103.
37. G. D. H. Cole admits this by writing: "In a planned socialist economy, there
can be no objective structure of costs (represented by the current level of
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wages, rent, and interest). Costs can be imputed to any desired extent" ac-
cording to the public policy of the State. Quoted from his book Economic
PL·nning, New York, 1935, by Lange, O., On the Economic Theory of Social-
ism. Minneapolis, University of Minneapolis, 1952 (first published in 1938),
p. 80.
38. Halm, G., "Further Considerations on the Possibility of Adequate Calculation
in a Socialist Community." In CoUectivist Economic PL·nning, p. 167.
39. Ibid., p. 106.
40. Ibid., p. 111.
41. Ibid., p. 110.
42. Such as H. D. Dickinson, A. P. Lerner, R. L. Hall.
43. Lange, O., and Taylor, F. M., On the Economic Theory of Socialism. Minne-
apolis, University of Minneapolis, 1952 (first printed in 1938), pp. 72-73.
44. Ibid., p. 61.
45. Ibid., p. 59.
46. Lange refers here to a term used by Wicksteed which indeed plays an im-
portant role in modern economic analysis under the name of "opportunity
costs."
47. Ibid., p. 60.
48. Ibid., p. 61.
49. Ibid., p. 81.
50. "One rule must impose the choice of the combination of factors which mini-
mizes the average cost of production." Ibid., p. 75. The other rule "deter-
mines the scale of output by stating that output has to be fixed so that marginal
cost is equal to the price of the product." Ibid., p. 76.
51. Ibid., p. 87.
52. Ibid., p. 89.
53. Dickinson, H. D., Economics of Socialism, pp. 99-100.
54. Ibid., p. 14.
55. "The prices at which consumption goods were offered for sale would be based
on the prices of the goods entering into their production (cost of production)
and would thus relate individual demand to the scarcity of the resources avail-
able for satisfying it." Ibid., p. 113.
56. Ibid., p. 17.
57. "A socialist economy would be able to put all the alternatives into its economic
accounting . . . as a result it would also be able to convert its social overhead
costs into prime costs." Lange, O., op. cit., p. 104.
58. Hayek, F. A., "The Present State of the Debate." In CoUectivist Economic
PL·nning, pp. 208-9.
59. Ibid., pp. 236-37.
60. Ibid., p. 237.
61. Sweezy, P. M., Socialism. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1949, p. 233.
62. Ibid.
63. Ibid., p. 235.
64. Ibid.
65. Ibid.
66. Ibid., p. 236.
67. Ibid., p. 232.
68. Lange, O., op. cit., p. 93, italics added.
CHAPTER VII
Plato
Foreign trade is clearly recognized by Plato as an agent
working for a general increase in productivity and welfare. Yet,
international exchange is to be minimized or even abolished, at
least as far as goods for use by individuals are concerned. It is
left entirely to the authorities' discretion to decide which im-
ports are "necessary" and which are not, no consideration being
given to the citizens' wishes or traditional religious customs.1
Quite another matter is the importing of commodities that
are required by the State for military purposes: here, the Law-
wardens are free to purchase whatever is needed and pay for
the acquired goods with exports. Since the State is "all produc-
tive," its authorities will have a sufficient range of commodities
PLANNED FOREIGN TRADE 151
at their disposal with which to satisfy the claims of foreign ex-
porters. The question of the real costs involved in such transac-
tions, costs which are ultimately borne by the population, could
not concern a man whose major preoccupation was to free hu-
man hearts from the lust of wealth. On the contrary, every
measure restricting economic welfare was openly welcomed by
him as a means of furthering his moral end. One could charac-
terize Plato's leading maxim with the phrase: to have less of
a thing is better than to have more of it. This principle, how-
ever, applies only to the individual; the State must retain ab-
solute freedom to abundantly provide for its needs which serve
to strengthen its internal and external position.
Thomas More
A seemingly different picture is given by Sir Thomas More
in his Utopia which is the socialist prototype of a rationalized
and standardized economy producing great surpluses. The
problem of scarcity does not arise. Goods are no longer traded,
but freely distributed to each according to his needs. Interna-
tional trade assumes the form of gifts offered by a happy com-
munity to the less fortunate peoples of the world. More leaves
no doubt that this really Utopian result is due not to a prodi-
gious productivity of the island, nor to some other supranatural
factor, but exclusively to "a life ordered according to nature."
What kind of order is this? One in which the demand side
of the economic problem is considerably simplified. The pro-
gram of production is strictly limited: it covers some basic food-
stuffs, standardized clothes and buildings, and a few objects
destined for "common recreation, games, and studies." In the
language of modern economic theory, only those goods and ser-
vices are produced in Utopia for which the elasticity of demand
is very low. This is a common characteristic of all "essentials."
In other words, the demand for these commodities reaches the
saturation point relatively rapidly, beyond which the possession
of them would be accompanied by disutility. And since in a
statical economic system these goods are constantly reproduced
in the same quantities and qualities, there is no impetus to
accumulate hoards: everyone will indeed only take what he
effectively needs.
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What happens, however, if the Utopians begin to desire ar-
ticles which have not hitherto been produced? Or where will
they be led by a sudden change in their frame of mind which
will cause them to prefer more leisure time to the overabun-
dance of not very useful products? Or, finally, what course will
events take when Utopian traders discover that, in exchange for
their surpluses, valuable goods can be obtained abroad which
greatly increase their own and their fellow citizens' comfort of
life? Clearly, in all these cases the economic problem would at
once make itself felt. The unconsumed surplus of home goods
would rapidly disappear and with it the Utopians' willingness
to give it away. Productive resources would become scarce.
But, the economic problem does not arise in Utopia for the
simple reason that its inhabitants "do not think felicity to rest
in all pleasure, but only in that pleasure that is good and hon-
est." It is neither good nor honest, nor "according to nature," to
desire more than one can have. And all one can have in Utopia
are six hours of work, the abundant or even overabundant pro-
vision of one's basic needs, and standardized entertainment.
No other choice has been left to the individual citizen by the
wise king Utopus.
Nevertheless, this king had foreseen the eventuality of an
emerging scarcity: that of land. And he had also indicated the
solution of this problem: war and annexation of "void" terri-
tories. Such procedures would be in accordance with the "law
of nature" since a "natural" proportion between the size of the
population and the territory to be occupied by it was assumed
to exist. But what if Utopia itself came to suffer from a deficient
population and a corresponding overabundance of land? Would
other peoples equally be entitled, by invoking the "law of na-
ture," to claim part of its territory? Obviously, this turn of
events is excluded by the geographical location of Utopia and
the impossibility of access to its lands by foreigners, a situation
consciously brought about by its founder. The implications
of this closedness would also be experienced by those citizens
who, on their trips abroad, would seek goals other than those
approved by the community.
Thus, we can see that despite apparent dissimilarities, More's
Utopia and Plato's Just State greatly resemble each other. Both
are subjected to the rule of "virtue" and "reason' as embodied
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by the State. In both, therefore, the citizen must be content
with what the State has accorded him. The only difference be-
tween the two is that authority in Utopia has already become
facile et douce, whereas in Plato's commonwealth it harshly re-
presses "the majority of desires." Even in Utopia, however, this
authority would soon be felt by all those who, in their personal
aspirations, failed to "follow the course of nature." Its closure
against the outside world thus not only protects the ideal State
from outward foes, but enables it to deal effectively with pos-
sible rebels within its frontiers. It is the indispensable condition
in maintaining absolute power.
Robert Owen
The combination of ideology and economics is particularly
noticeable in Owen's works. All basic aspects and problems of
Utopia discussed in the preceding section are present. Even
the question of natural frontiers is hinted at by Owen's remark
that each community will "annex" sufficient land enabling it to
live on its produce. Thus, this author, too, aims at closed, self-
sufficient associations, notwithstanding the fact that he speaks
of a "free" international intercourse. We have just seen the
fundamental incompatibility of such an order with centralized
planning.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It was reserved to Proudhon to elaborate, with admirable
clarity and eloquence, the basic qualitative difference that dis-
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tinguished the economic from the political sphere. The solu-
tion to the problem of social organization could not, for him,
be found in taking power away from inappropriate persons and
conferring it, greatly enlarged, upon men of "perfect" knowl-
edge and wisdom. What was required was the separation of the
two domains and both the horizontal and the vertical division
of political power. But this could only be achieved by a society
built de bas en haut, a state organization based on federalism,
that is, on maximum individual and regional freedom.
Proudhon's uncritical adoption of the labor theory of value
obscured to him the basic fact of the scarcity of all productive
resources. But he recognized that the forces of dominium (pos-
sessoire) and only these could create and maintain a peaceful
international order.
We can only conjecture what would have been Proudhon's
choice had he been clearly faced with the alternative: "monop-
oly" of private property—which, under a regime of free compe-
tion is, for all that, less "detestable" and more "justified" than he
initially thought—or the unrestricted power monopoly of the
state, destroying dominium and bringing all human activities
under the control of a single, political will. What is certain is
the rigorous logic of this fundamental alternative: one can ig-
nore, but not escape it.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS
Here we must reflect for a moment. Do not our conclusions
with respect to socialist international economic relations strik-
ingly coincide with those drawn up by Hil£erding with respect
to the monopolistic stage of capitalism? Does not the growth
of mighty industrial combines equally destroy the price mech-
anism based on competition and replace it by power, arbi-
trariness, and chance? Are we not faced here, to use Marxist
language, with an irresistible evolution of the material condi-
tions of production which necessarily leads to socialism?
If we examine the problem of industrial concentration more
closely, there are three main factors to be considered: (1) tech-
nical progress and improvements in the organization of produc-
tion may, indeed, frequently encourage the growth of large en-
terprises; this growth is, however, (2) preeminently dependent
on the economic requirements of the market; this aspect plays a
particularly important role in view of the considerable invest-
ment and the corresponding high proportion of fixed costs
which are involved in large-scale production. Furthermore,
technical inventions usually bring about (3) an increase in the
division of labor. Hence, where industrial agglomerations arise,
a great number of small, specialized enterprises simultaneously
spring up, nourishing the large factories with their supplies and
extending their services to the finished products of these giants.
This fact, together with the growing importance of tertiary pro-
duction, may actually account for a diminution in the average
size of firms.1
We are thus entitled to the assumption that there were
strong political forces at work that contributed to the rise and
consolidation of "Monopoly Capital" in the form of financial
LIBERAL VERSUS SOCIALIST ECONOMIC ORDER 171
integration of control. Apart from outright government inter-
ventions such as subventions, price fixing, etc., four major fac-
tors have had a decisive influence on the rise of monopolies:
corporation laws, tax policies, patent laws, and trade restric-
tions.2 It was correctly perceived by Hilferding that trade re-
strictions, under the guise of infant industry protection, played
a particularly harmful role in this process. There is no reason
to conclude, however, that these government policies are "in-
evitable." In fact, as soon as their dangerous implications be-
came more generally recognized, a strong antitrust movement
gained ground in public opinion which was theoretically elabo-
rated and sustained by the neo-liberal school.
As for the aggressiveness which characterized the foreign
policies of the major industrial powers in the decades preceding
World War I, it was mainly due, as Schumpeter also admitted
and even stressed, not to the inherent forces of capitalism, but
to the association of the bourgeoisie with the detainers of state
power who used it according to their own specific political in-
terests which were different, if not entirely contrary, to those of
the former.3 Hence, we may conclude that "imperialism is not
only no essential part of capitalism, but indeed a phenomenon
alien and contrary to its economic system."4
One word may yet be said on the question of crises. If this
problem is approached in a scientific way, one will not fail to
discover that economic disequilibria are not restricted to a free
market economy, but are due to the complicated structure of
modern economy in general.5 Under capitalism, a cumulative
contraction process is usually caused by the interest rate not
reflecting the true scarcity of capital and a corresponding over-
investment. But we have already seen that forced capital ac-
cumulation is a typical feature also of centrally planned econo-
mies. Since no rational price mechanism guides the planning
authority's decisions, bottlenecks and major disproportionalities
will be even more frequent in a collectivist than in a liberal
economy. But they will not result in a conspicuous reversal of
the economic process—the economic function of which is the
correction of a false allocation of resources—i.e. in unused
capacities6 and unemployment. Productive resources will re-
main as scarce as they have ever been; the only effect of such
172 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
imbalances will be either stagnation or an extremely slow rise
of the general standards of living.7
The idea that immigration increases unemployment "is based on the error . . .
that the total sum of productive work to be mastered is of a fixed preestablished
size, a cake, so to speak, from which no one can cut a bigger piece without
another's faring badly. After all, . . . the absolute limit of ¾e total volume of
work to be done is determined by the sum of our wants; in practice, therefore,
it lies in the infinite. . . . The problem of unemployment relates consequently
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not to the entire volume, but to the correct composition of production; the
problem is one of equilibrium, not of absolute total volume." Ròpke, W.,
International Order and Economic Integration, p. 143. Therefore, the eco-
nomic structure of the immigration country as well as the type of immigration
are of relevance and it is well conceivable that immigration, by alleviating
bottlenecks in certain fields of occupation, may create complementary jobs for
hitherto unemployed home labor.
49. Ibid., p. 146.
50. Their fallacy is exposed in every textbook on international economics. It is
due to a failure to grasp the substance of the theory of comparative costs.
51. That these restrictions highly encourage monopolistic practices and are there-
fore pressed for by interest groups is no invalidation of our contention that
economic nationalism resulting from basically collectivist policies is at the root
of this development. The close connection between these two phenomena will
be treated in the next chapter.
52. Röpke, W., op. cit., p. 139.
53. Hence, emigration is not only forcefully repressed by socialist governments,
it is indeed often regarded as high treason to be punished by long years of
imprisonment, if not by death.
54. For a detailed analysis, cf. Agad, J., Der politìsche Faktor in den international-
en privaten Kapitalbewegungen. Geneva, Descombes, 1961, 216 p.
55. Staley, E., War and the Private Investor. A Study in the Relations of Inter-
national Politics and International Private Investment. New York, Garden
City, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1935, p. 15.
56. Whose success in this respect will soon appear in the form of higher bonuses.
CHAPTER IX
THE PROBLEM
To answer these questions, we must first be aware of the
fundamental problem of economic "underdevelopment." This
problem lies beyond the veil of statistical data relating to na-
tional per-capita income or to the percentage of the population
employed in agriculture. One must go back to "all the elements
that affect a nation's capacity to produce goods and services;
its natural resource base; the quantity and quality of its labor
force, the amount and kinds of capital available to its industry
and agriculture; and to the institutions, attitudes, and habits
that determine the effectiveness with which all these economic
resources are used."1
The first underdeveloped country was Great Britain. It
could be called this from the moment its inhabitants initiated
the process of capital accumulation and systematically applied
scientific discoveries to production. The particular kind of Eu-
ropean culture and the stage of religious and intellectual eman-
cipation which it had reached made it possible to create "in-
stitutions, attitudes, and habits" favorable to the process of in-
dustrialization. This process had its negative sides, if we re-
member the price which had to be paid for capital formation
200 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
within one single country. But the misery of the working popu-
lation which Engels had so stirringly described in his Die Lage
der arbeitenden Klasse in England (1848) gave way, during
the later decades of the nineteenth century, to a rising partici-
pation of labor in the general increase of productivity, trans-
lated into rising real wages. And productivity could even more
rapidly be improved by specialization of production in accord-
ance with international comparative advantage.
When other European countries followed England on her
way to industrialization and there emerged—in North America,
Australia, and New Zealand—new, vast "underdeveloped" areas,
the process of capital accumulation became less painful. A stock
of capital seeking profitable investment opportunities already
existed (and there was nothing to prevent it from being ex-
ported ); the effectiveness of the international division of labor
was increasing, moreover, due to a greater diversification of
supply and demand that was made possible by industrial pro-
duction, the effectiveness of the international division of labor
was increasing.
Thus, the economic starting point of development can be
seen in the existence of primitive and inefficient production
techniques which are usually applied by a predominantly
agrarian population, complemented by a growing awareness of
the possibility of improving these techniques by rationalization
and participation in international trade.
But economic development is not a mere question of capital
accumulation; it is a process showing a close interdependence
with the social and cultural development of a country. Its suc-
cess therefore depends on the population's preparedness not
only to passively accept the deep-going changes of their tradi-
tional way of life associated with the introduction of new pro-
duction methods, but also to actively participate in the move-
ment for modernization and eventually to assume the economic
and political responsibilities created by, and safeguarding the
continuance of, development. As has already been pointed out,
European cultural and social patterns had reached a point at
which the emerging new elites, keen on innovation, could rely
on a general willingness to respond to their call, even though it
had first to be awakened. And, since the overseas settlers be-
longed to the same cultural orbit, the social and human prob-
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lems found a solution that was parallel with those posed by
economic development. At the same time, international eco-
nomic relations were greatly facilitated by the open society
which prevailed in the liberal age.
In the underdeveloped countries of today, the economic
starting point is the same as that which the more advanced
nations were concerned with one and a half centuries ago. The
essential difference, however, lies in the fact that a relatively
small group of Asian, African, and Latin American leaders,
pressing for industrialization is faced with populations still
deeply embedded in their accustomed ways of life; their way
of acting and thinking is under the spell of cultures fundamen-
tally different from that which formed the basis of the original
movement for economic advance. The problem, therefore, is
not only that of modernizing the economy, but, far more im-
portant, that of transforming society to prepare the human
ground for development. That this is a very lengthy process
and stands in striking contrast to the technical possibilities of
economic growth is the crux of the problem.
The economic side of this problem can be summarized thus.
These countries are characterized by a large agricultural over-
population in which marginal productivity may fall to zero.
Consequently the same quantity of food and raw materials may
be produced with less labor, the surplus population being avail-
able for employment in the newly created industrial centers.
A net gain in productivity is thus expected to accrue.
But the problem goes deeper than that. To build up fac-
tories, expand mining, etc., a minimum amount of both over-
head facilities and capital equipment is necessary. Hence, the
few available resources must be devoted to the production of
investment goods while the workers engaged in this produc-
tion must "wait," i.e. content themselves with a low income un-
til the stream of consumption goods eventually begins to flow.
It, therefore, appears at first sight that it is the industrial work-
ers who, by their abstention from consuming the "equivalent"
of what they produce, finance economic progress. Yet, how is
it to be assured that these laborers, who were drawn from the
agricultural districts, will continue to receive the food which
they had previously consumed? In other words: how can the
farmers still engaged in cultivating the soil be prevented from
202 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
retaining that part of their produce which need no longer be
shared with those who have left their native village? The an-
swer is simple: the farmers cannot be induced to sell their "sur-
pluses" in the town markets unless they are offered useful manu-
factured goods in exchange. But it is exactly these that are lack-
ing since the tools have yet to be created with which to pro-
duce them. There is little hope of persuading those peasants,
who must get used to the very idea of producing for a market, to
part with goods which they themselves badly need in exchange
for some unknown commodities to be received in a distant fu-
ture. Unless the necessary supplies are either forcibly taken
from them or borrowed abroad, economic development is
doomed to a halt even before it could effectively be started.
The two just-mentioned methods constitute, indeed, the only
real alternatives to economic stagnation in the underdeveloped
countries.
If a country wishes to benefit from foreign capital in the
same way as did, in earlier decades, the United States and
Australia, it must observe the rules of a liberal international eco-
nomic order, that is, aim at a maximum international division
of labor based on the freedom and stability of international legal
andfinancialrelations. To the extent to which it allows govern-
ment intervention to interfere with the capital and commodity
flows set into motion by the autonomous market mechanisms,
the country insulates itself from the world market. The amount
of private capital that will still be forthcoming will, to this ex-
tent, depend less on relative interest rates than on a wider or
narrower range of political considerations.
Chatterjee regards the basic issue between the collectivist
and the liberal approach as "the conflict which lies between
economic development through maximum participation in for-
eign trade, and development which makes foreign trade a re-
sidual, a by-product of home investment plans. The maximi-
zation of the degree of participation in foreign trade means that
the country concerned produces those commodities which it
can produce at a lower comparative cost and exchanges a part
of what it produces for those goods for which its comparative
advantage is smaller. The minimization of the importance of
foreign trade implies that the country is attempting to produce
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anything that it is physically able to produce, regardless of cost,
and importing those items which it is not able to produce."2
NOTES TO CHAPTER IX
1. Ellsworth, P. T., The International Economy. New York & London, Macmillan,
1964, pp. 483-84.
2. Chatterjee, I. K., op. cit., p. 14.
3. Hilferding, R., op. cit., pp. 406-7.
4. See pp. 52-53.
5. Chatterjee, I. K., op. cit., pp. 182-83.
6. United Nations, Measures for the Economic Development of Under-Developed
Countries. Report by a Group of Experts. New York, May 1951, paragraph
149.
7. Ibid., paragraph 194. Cf. also the discussion of Barone's model on pp. 133-35.
8. High wages thus result in a "contrived scarcity" (P. T. Bauer) of labor, leading
to a higher capital intensity than economically justified in these countries. This
effect is, moreover, in contradiction to the goals of full employment which is
naturally subscribed to by all collectivist governments.
9. Once again, the Chinese Great Leap may serve as an illustration. It suffered
frustration not only because of the withdrawal of Soviet advisors, technicians,
and development aid, but mainly because of "human bottlenecks." Whereas
centralized planning is often justified by the absence of private initiative and
the low cultural level of the masses, no attention is given to the problem where
the state is to take from the army of experts and skilled workers indispensable
for the setting up and fulfillment of national plans of industrialization. If the
government refuses to wait until the general social and cultural level has
reached a stage at which a responsible middle class may become the agent of
economic development—a process which can be accelerated by a patient and
well devised policy of education and the demonstration of new methods adapted
to the special conditions of the individual countries—its only alternative is to
adopt force. But even this policy finds its limits in the physical and psychologi-
cal reactions of the population, as was proved by the Chinese experiment. The
premature concentration of capital in large industrial enterprises equipped
with the latest machinery, but with insufficiently qualified personnel, is there-
fore a major factor accounting for the waste of scarce productive resources by
collectivist governments, not to mention the inefficiency and corruptibility of
an all too hastily created bureaucracy.
10. Cf. also Chatterjee, I. K., op. cit., pp. 21-22: "If full utilization of capacity at
any point of time is considered to be a condition of economic growth and if
at the same time it is to be assured that monopolistic profits should be reaped,
there is no escape from a policy which permits demand to run ahead of supply
(supply at any time being full capacity output), nor is there any getting away
from the consequences of such a policy: inflation at home and closure of the
economy. It can he seen that each of the elements involved in the restrictionist
position—an increase in the degree of monopoly, emphasis on employment, pro-
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 215
pensity to inflate, emergence of disequilibrium in the balance of payments,
rise of trade and payments restrictions—is partial by itself, but mutually com-
plementary. Taken together, these elements represent a way of development''
Italics added.
11. Röpke, W., "Unentwickelte Lander," ORDO, V (1953), p. 105.
12. I.e. without its "inherent contradictions" which were simply "transferred" to
the colonial areas. The fact that Rosa Luxemburg's theory was shown to be
scientifically untenable by both socialist and liberal economists was no reason
not to appeal to it. And in fact, the psychological crop to be derived from it
is considerable.
13. A typical example was Nasser's attitude toward Western agencies negotiating
the financing of the Assuan project. The first condition the World Bank at-
tached to a loan was an Egyptian guarantee that it was in fact used exclusively
for the construction of the barrage. Secondly, Egypt was to take the obligation
to prevent inflation resulting from the inflow of these large sums. Both demands
were rejected by the Egyptian government because of their "colonialistic"
character and their "interference" with the internal affairs of the country.
14. "The historical irony . . . lies in the fact that thereby the program is executed by
the West to a critical degree in the spirit of the same national planning which
in the national economic policy of the individual underdeveloped countries
creates a national-autarkic socialism and therefore becomes a major obstacle
for the success of a policy of economic development." Röpke, W., loc cit., p. 69.
15. Shenoy, B. R., "Der richtige Weg zu Indiens Fortschritt." In Hunold, A. (ed.),
Entwicklungsländer, Wahn und Wirklichkeit. Erlenbach/Stuttgart, E. Rentsch
Verlag, 1961, p. 151.
16. Ibid., p. 152.
17. Ibid., pp. 153-54.
18. Ibid., pp. 226-27.
19. This statement is not invalidated by the fact that governments may produce
impressive statistical evidence on economic growth. It is not the quantity of
output of heavy industry that matters, but its economic usefulness, i.e. a com-
parison between its costs of production and the corresponding world market
prices.
20. "One thing is certain: the more the country participates in international trade,
the more it finds that those items of national production establish themselves
as exports which can compete price-wise and quality-wise with foreign products
and those items of national consumption which do not meet competition from
domestic products show themselves up as imports." Chatterjee, I. K., op. cit.,
p. 17.
21. Röpke, W., International Order and Economic Integration, p. 182. He con-
tinues: "The actual problem we are faced with here is a dynamic one and will
be the graver, the more sudden and frequent are the changes in competitive
conditions and the more vigorous the resistance offered against adaptation with-
in the individual national economies."
22. Many authors are prepared to admit intergovernmental aid for this purpose.
That this provision requires a careful and extensive planning has been shown by
K. Hesse who devoted a study to the analysis of the contribution of private
firms to economic development during the colonial age. He extensively dis-
cusses the first Ten-Year-Plan for the development of the Congo under Bel-
gian domination as well as the instructive examples provided by the Gezira
scheme and the Managil project in the Sudan. "It is in the continuation of the
performance during the last decades, not in the rupture with it, that a solution
of the new task [i.e. the development of independent states, E. T.] is to be
found," writes the author after having subjected the bright as well as the dark
sides of the intervention of private firms to a scrupulous analysis. Cf. Hesse, K.,
216 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
Entwicklungsländer und Entwicklungshilfen an der Wende des Kolonialzeit-
alters. Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 1962, p. 337.
23. Hesse refers to the Gezira scheme when he writes: "Here as in many other
big development projects of the past one did not stop at making use of 'cheap
colonial labor power,' but labor was combined with machinery. Maybe that
thereby not unimportant sections of the population had to remain outside the
production process; on the other hand, higher output at less cost could more
rapidly be achieved which in turn resulted in increased tax receipts of the ad-
ministration, leading to higher expenditures of general development and social
services. To find in this respect the right measure, not to renounce, on the one
hand, technical progress as a means of economic development, always to create,
on the other, new jobs for manual workers, technical and commercial staff as
well as for government officials—all this can be regarded as one of the most
essential tasks of future development policy which can learn many things from
past experience." Ibid., pp. 347-48.
24. M. Heilperin e.g. attaches decisive importance to internal capital formation
and to a corresponding climate of economic stability based on private initiative.
He indeed sees in private capital formation at home a necessary precondition
for an adequate inflow of foreign capital. Cf. Entwicklungsländer, Wahn und
Wirklichkett, p. 224.
25. "It should now be clear that competition, rise of productivity, monetary dis-
cipline, equilibrium of the balance of payments and convertibility of currencies
form part of another network where one can take all or none of them and
these apparently dissimilar elements can be pieced together to indicate another
line of development." Chatterjee, I. K., op. cit., p. 22.
26. Röpke, W., "Unentwickelte Lander," he. cit., p. 84.
27. Van Sickle, J., "Alte und neue Theorien des wirtschaftlichen Wachstums."
Entwicklungsländer, Wahn und Wirklichkeit, p. 120.
28. "Conscience is a matter for the individual, not for national governments."
Quoted from J. Jewkes in Röpke, W., foe. cit., p. 70. Cf. also Hesse, K., op.
cit., p. 359. A. Rüstow proposed the creation of a "Club of the Respectable
and the Trustworthy" to be constituted by those developing countries which
are determined loyally to honor their obligations toward foreign investors. If
the rules of this Club were strictly applied, its members would find it much
easier to obtain foreign capital and, at that, at much more favorable conditions.
Cf. Entwicklungsländer, Wahn und Wirklichkeit, pp. 217-18. It is interesting
to note that such a "Club" has in fact been constituted by the countries who
signed the Investment Code of the International Bank for Reconstruction and
Development.
29. Scheel, W. W., Verfahren und Formen der Zusammenarbeit mit den Entwick-
lungsìändern. Bonn, 1961, quoted by Hesse, K., op. cit., pp. 17-18.
30. "In practice the signal that the time has come for comprehensive planning is
usually provided by the emergence of shortages. Because of the demands being
made upon the economy, some resource or other becomes acutely scarce, e.g.
labor or food, or foreign exchange, and the symptoms of inflation appear. This
scarce resource may then have to be rationed, and this cannot be done sat-
isfactorily without knowing how important it is in every part of the economy."
Measures for the Economic Development of Under-Devehped Countries, para-
graph 204. It is assumed by the authors of this report that this knowledge can
be gained only by comprehensive planning!
31. Chatterjee, I. K., op. cit., p. 158.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid., italics added.
35. Linder, W., in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, No. 5323, December 9, 1964.
CHAPTER X
WHO WHOM?
Orthodox Marxists will at once concede that nothing can
indeed be expected either from international organizations
(with "bourgeois" majorities), or from "nationalistic," even
THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF WORLD PLANNING 223
though collectivist, governments. The one elementary force
which will be the decisive factor in accomplishing the task set
to it by history is the international working class, united and
led to the final goal by its "conscious expression," the Commu-
nist Party.
In the days prior to World War I, there in fact seemed to
exist a unified international proletariat, symbolized by the Sec-
ond International. Its leaders periodically met to discuss and
elaborate a uniform line of policy for "Social Democracy." And
one of the burning problems was the national question, that
is, the role of sovereign states and the fate of national minorities
in a future socialist order.
Three possible ways were open to a socialist policy of nation-
alities and all three were embodied in a different "theory."
There was, first, the Polish position, represented by Rosa Lux-
emburg, which reduced states and nationalities alike to cultural
and language units and wished to hand over both economic and
political power (the latter was asserted to lose its significance
under socialism!) directly to a world agency.16 Secondly, the
Austrian O. Bauer came out for the effective realization of the
right of self-determination in that he was prepared to grant
cultural as well as economic-political autonomy to whatever
people or local group desired to form an independent state.
Finally, Lenin, faithful to Marxist doctrine, considered national
states, such as they actually existed, as the historically given
and therefore "necessary" political units, the fundament on
which the proletariat was to build its power.
But as soon as this last-mentioned development is admitted
—and this is, as will be recalled, the essence of Marxism—one
can no longer speak of "Social Democracy" as representing the
world proletariat. Instead, there are national parties represent-
ing national working classes. "Socialist internationalism" only
exists to the extent that the leaders of these national movements
succeed in reaching agreement on a unified international policy.
This is exactly what was attempted within the Second Inter-
national; the fundamental antinomy between the national in-
terests of socialist parties and the international solidarity of
all workers did not appear until shortly before the outbreak of
World War I. The German Socialists' voting for the war credits
in the Reichstag brought an end to the illusion of international
224 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
socialism in the sense of an overriding community of interests
shared by the world's working classes.
The establishment in Russia of "the first stable Socialist Re-
public in the World" marked the decisive turn in the develop-
ment of socialism from wishful thinking to political reality. This
Republic was not created by the unanimous vote or even a ma-
jority of the Russian population, nor, at that, by the Russian pro-
letariat itself. It was introduced by the Vanguard Party claim-
ing to speak for this proletariat even though the latter had not
yet awakened "to conscious life and struggle" (Lenin). To
bring this about was one of the very tasks of this party. It drew
its justification from historical materialism.
With this political event, "the international obligations of
the working class of Russia" were "coming to the forefront with
particular force."17 They found their embodiment in the Com-
munist International set up in Moscow in 1919. Its aim was the
overthrow of capitalism all over the world and its replacement
by the dictatorship of the proletariat.18 Such are the principles
on which the actions of this body were to be based:
The experience of the victorious dictatorship of the proletariat in
Russia has clearly shown even to those who are unable to think . . . that
absolute centralization and the strictest discipline of the proletariat are
one of the fundamental conditions for victory over the bourgeoisie.19
CONCLUSIONS
This passage, quoted from a then leading Marxist ideologist
speaking for a small socialist country, both proves and illustrates
what has been said in the last paragraph and, in fact, what nec-
essarily follows from this whole analysis. These consequences
do not arise from a particular "maliciousness," to use Marxist
THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM OF WORLD PLANNING 227
terminology, of the leaders of a dominating power; they assert
themselves because the principle of subordination, politically
as well as economically, is the necessary concomitant of the
collectivist system.
In the meantime, socialist reality has entered a fourth phase
with the rise of Continental China to a second dominant power.
Two "solar systems" are emerging within the socialist camp.
But at the same time, some smaller socialist states make use of
this new constellation by increasing their freedom of action.
They can do so by "autonomously" extending their economic
(and political) relations with capitalist countries. The final out-
come of these developments as well as of the great contest be-
tween the two fundamental conceptions of economic and po-
litical order must as yet be awaited.
NOTES TO CHAPTER X
1. Seep. 73.
2. See p. 74.
3. See p. 77.
4. Robbins, L., Economic PL·nning and International Order. London, Macmillan,
1937, p. 214.
5. Ibid.
6. Hayek, F. A., "Grundtatsachen des Fortschritts." ORDO, IX (1957), pp.
19-42.
7. "If today some nations can rise in a few decades to a standard of material com-
fort which the West needed hundreds, even thousands of years to attain, is it
not evident that their way, far from being made more difficult, was facilitated
by the fact that the West was not compelled to share its material successes
with the rest; that it was not retained, but able to progress far ahead? The
countries of the West are not only wealthier because they have advanced tech-
nical knowledge, but they also have greater advanced technical knowledge be-
cause they are wealthier. And the gratuitous gift of knowledge, for which
the leaders paid dearly, enables the successors to reach the same level with
far fewer sacrifices." Ibid., pp. 32-33.
8. Robbins, L., op. cit., p. 218.
9. See p. 78.
10. Röpke, W., International Order and Economic Integration, p. 98, italics original.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid., p. 99.
13. Ibid., p. 100.
14. Ibid., p. 105.
15. This applies even to the most backward countries, which, according to socialist
doctrine, would only gain by a fusion. No nationalist development planner, as
we have seen, would agree of his own accord to renounce an autonomous eco-
nomic policy and to place "world welfare" above national welfare.
228 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
16. In its essence, Rosa Luxemburg's doctrine is thus identical with that of the
Saint-Simonian school.
17. Lenin, V. I., The Tasks of the Proletariat in Our Revolution (1917). In
Selected Works, Vol. X, p. 3.
18. Cf. Lenin, V. I., The Third International and Its PL·ce in History (1919). Ibid.,
p. 31.
19. Lenin, V. I., One of the Fundamental Conditions for the Success of the Bol-
sheviks. Ibid., pp. 60-61.
20. Lenin, V. I., Theses of the Fundamental Tasks of the Second Congress of the
Communist International (1920). Ibid., p. 165.
21. Lenin, V. I., The Third International and Its PL·ce in History. Ibid., p. 13.
22. This resulted in a split, in most countries, between socialists ("communists")
who were prepared to accept this absolute leadership from Moscow and those
who were not ("constitutional socialists").
23. Djilas, M., Lénine et Us rapports entre états socialistes. Le Livre Yougoslave,
1949, p. 10.
24. Ibid., p. 24.
25. Ibid., p. 18.
26. Ibid., pp. 74-76.
PART III
THE TEST BY PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
INTRODUCTION
as follows:
Is it necessary again to remind the author that two-thirds of the ter-
ritory to which he refers is an integral part of the territory of the Ru-
manian People's Republic, an independent and sovereign socialist state?
On this territory nobody has anything to study, neither in detail, nor in
lesser detail, without authorization from the Rumanian government, for
both the efficient use of resources and the location of objectives, as well
as any other problems, big or small, are of the exclusive competence of
the Rumanian government and people. The Rumanian regions in the
"district" of the lower Danube are developing within the framework of,
and according to, the interests of Rumania's national economy and this is
the sole way in which their resources may serve the interests of strength-
ening socialism as a world system, interests to which schemes of the
kind we are now discussing cannot but cause serious prejudice. . . . The
more projects of this kind are made in the name of deepening economic
cooperation between member countries of the Council of Mutual Eco-
nomic Assistance, the less public opinion will understand the relation
between these proposals and the basic principles on which C.M.E.A. is
founded.56
"wp ¯ a 2
where
W p =domestic costs in zloties, in a given phase of produc-
tion
aj = t h e zloty-value of all inputs which have been used in
production and which command a world market value
a2 =same as a l5 but at their foreign exchange value
P ^ =world market price of the commodity.
Yet, in the very same article, the authors raise the ominous
question: what place is the national economy to occupy in the
international division of labor? and make it unmistakably clear
that the autarkic policy hitherto pursued had catastrophic re-
sults for the entire economy. Some years later, T. Liska sug-
gests going back to "the really given, on principle unchange-
able, data at the time of planning"82 and, based on these realities,
"to calculate, with the help of linear programming, the main
[macroeconomic, E.T.] proportions themselves which at present
are approximated by estimates."83 And he reaches the weighty
conclusion:
The increase of the investment share and the additional accumulation
achieved thereby can only be justified by a more rapid increase in the
living standard, attained within a foreseeable time. . . . With an adequate
price system, even the enterprises and branches of the producers' goods
industry can show the degree to which they have contributed to the con-
sumptive fund.84
But he adds:
In the absence of these necessary prerequisites, it is as yet impossible
to establish a uniform exchange rate able to serve the purposes of eco-
262 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
nomic analysis, to supply a criterion for investment cooperation and, for
the products of joint enterprises, to examine foreign trade efficiency and
to provide the basis for international clearing.90
NOTES TO CHAPTER XI
1. This objective has, for decades, been expressed by the slogan that the Soviet
Union must, within the shortest possible time, catch up with and surpass the
most developed capitalist countries, especially the U.S.A.
2. Speech given in 1926, quoted in Kaser, M., Comecon. Integration Problems
of the PL·nned Economies. London, Oxford University Press, 1965, p. 18.
3. E.g. in Pravda, October 19, 1961: "Heavy industry has always played and will
play the leading role in expanded production. The party will continue un-
flaggingly to concern itself with its growth, considering this as the decisive con-
dition for the creation of the material-technical basis for swift technical progress,
as the basis for the strengthening of the defense capacity of the socialist state."
4. Stalin wrote: "The country of the dictatorship of the proletariat, in conditions
of capitalist encirclement, cannot remain economically independent if it does
not produce at home the instruments and means of production." Quoted in
Kaser, M., op. cit., p. 18.
5. Ulbricht, W., "Die Anwendung der Leninschen Prinzipien der sozialistischen
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274 SOCIALISM AND INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORDER
March 1964, p. 357. Cf. also Gáspár, S., "A part vezetö szerepéröl" (On the
Leading Role of the Party). Társadalmi Szemle, Vol. XIX, No. 10, 1964, p. 3:
The most important prerequisite of the party's leading role is its possession of
those qualities by means of which it understands and formulates the interests,
wishes, and aspirations of the working class and the entire working population,
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its organizational activities, the implementation of the policies thus deter-
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6. Quoted from BoL·haya Sovetskaya Entisikhpedia (USSR) in Kaser, M., op.
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7. There also exist long-term "perspective plans" covering fifteen or twenty years.
8. Knirsch, P., "Grundzüge und Perspektiven der sowjetischen Wirtschaftspoli-
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10. Revisions in the balance of one product usually entail a wave of corrections
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so on in an almost infinite chain.
11. Report of the Director of Omsk Tyre Factory in Pravda, October 5, 1962.
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13. The chief function of the state bank is thus the control of managerial per-
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14. Esze, Z,, "Érték és árvita. A szocializmus árúviszonyainak megismerése" (The
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coal:
Average prime Average sales
costs per ton price per ton Prices covering
Year (zlotìes) (zloties) costs (percent)
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214-16 Halm, G., 149
Clausewitz, K. von, viii, 4 Hayek, F. A., 40, 129, 138, 141, 147, 149,
Cohen, M., 117 181, 218, 227
Cohn, N. R., 317 Hegel, G. W. F., 44,102
Cole, G. D. H., 42, 46, 90, 106, 118, 148, Heflperin, M. A., 167, 216
157, 197 Hesse, K., 215, 216
Heuss, A., 21
_D- Heuss, E., 161, 168, 169
Dickinson, H. D., 67, 88, 106, 108, 110, Hilferding, R., 48, 52-56, 57, 58, 61, 62-
111, 118, 119, 138-41, 144, 149 64, 66, 87, 170, 171, 203, 206, 214,
Djilas, M., 159, 168, 225-26, 228 215, 216
INDEX TO AUTHORS 301
Hirota, L., 74 Menger, K., 30
Hitler, A., 74, 147 Michelis, G. de, 68, 76, 90
Hobson, J. A., 53, 63, 119 Milhaud, E., 70, 79-80, 83, 89, 90, 219
Hoehmann, H. H., 275 Mises, L. von, 135-37, 146, 148, 183, 197,
Horace, 197 205
Moeller van den Bruck, A., 104, 117
- I - More, Sir T., 10-13, 19, 21, 102, 151-52
lljitchev, V., 274 Mossé, R., 106-10, 118, 119, 157, 161
Müller, A., 117
Jaurès, J., 57, 81 Myrdal, G., 181,196
Jewkes, J., 162, 168, 194, 216 - N -
Johnston, G. A., 68, 88, 90 Nagy, A., 277, 278
Jouhaux, L., 71-72 Nasser, G. A., 215
-K- Neurath, O., 147
Kant, E., 4 Newton, I., 41
Karkhin, G., 276 Noetel, R., 244, 262, 264, 276, 278
Kaser, M., 273, 274-77 Nove, A., 270
Kautsky, K., 57, 60, 69, 94, 104, 115, 117 - O -
Keynes, J. M., 175-83, 192,196
Khrushchev, N. S., 235, 238, 247, 249, Owen, R., 2, 4, 26-28, 30, 38, 39, 40-41,
263 155
Kiss, T., 250, 277, 278 - P -
Knirsch, P., 274 Painlevé, P., 72
Kotlicki, H., 266 Pareto, V., 133
Kovér, K., 278 Paulsen, A., 176, 196
Kurovski, S. J., 275 Pecqueur, C., 40, 43, 85
Pécsi, K., 261, 278
- L - Person, H. S., 88
Lange, O , 137-38, 140, 141, 144, 146, Pirittyi, O., 275
149, 161, 241 Plato, 2, 5-10, 19, 20, 21, 85, 150-51, 152,
Lansbury, G., 89 153,194
Lawley, F. E., 72, 74, 79, 80, 82, 87, 89, Plenge, J., 114
90, 91, 219 Poetzsch, H., 117
Lenel, O. von, 194 Proudhon, P. J., 33-37, 40, 43, 61, 113,
Lenin, V. I., x, 3, 57, 58, 60, 61, 68-69, 156-57 165, 282
84-85, 88, 93-94, 97-99, 105, 113, 115, Pryor, F. L., 270, 278
116, 126, 128, 131, 158, 165, 203, 223,
224, 225, 226, 228, 232, 234 -R-
Lerner, A. P., 149 Rába, A., 253, 255, 277
Libermann, J., 241, 275 Renner, K., 94
Linder, W., 216 Ricardo, D., 24, 37
Liska, T., 260, 277 Robbins, L., 138, 148, 219, 227
List, F., 52,106, 206 Rooper, D., 81
Lorwin, L. L., 87, 88, 89 Röpke, W., viii, 173, 181, 194, 195, 196,
Lutz, F. A., 169, 180,195, 196 198, 210, 215, 221, 227
Luxemburg, R., 62, 94, 215, 223, 228 Rüstow, A., 216
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Machlup, F., 172, 194, 195, 205, 206 Saint-Simon, C. H. de, 28-33, 38, 41, 42,
McKenna, R., 78, 90 155,159
Maier, K. F., 134, 148 Salter, A., 68
Maizenberg, L., 241 Say, J. B., 24
Malthus, T. R., 188 Scheel, W. W , 216
Máriás, A., 277 Schippel, M., 117
Marx, K., 3, 4, 24, 44-48, 50-51, 53, 58, Schumpeter, J., 63, 171
59, 60, 62, 65, 69, 84, 85, 92-96, 103, Shenoy, B. R., 208, 215
112, 114, 128, 131-32, 174, 264 Sickle, J. van, 216
Meinecke, F. von, 117 Simpson, H. S., 148
302 INDEX TO AUTHORS
Sismondi, J. C. L. Simonde de, 24, 87 Trotsky, L., 116
Smith, A., 37, 174 Tschajanow, A. W., 131
Socrates, 5, 6 Tucker, R. C, 61
Sombart, W., 105, 113, 117
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Spengler, O., 103-4, 113, 114, 117 T„ , „, n ~ ~
Staley, F., 185, 197, 198 Ulbncht, W., 273
Stalin, J. W., 94, 100-102, 116, 141, 165, _ v _
225, 231, 233, 239, 241, 244, 266, 270, ValeV; E ^ 2 76
Sweezy, P. M, 46, 61, 62, 126, 143-44, vfner"fJ ^ 4 6 7 ' 88
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Tálas, B 264, 277, 278 ¾¾ ¡% UQ
Taylor, F. M., 149 Wil w 72
Thomas, A., 66, 77, 80-81, 82, 87, 90 Winnie A. ' l l 7
Thompson, W., 40 '
Tittoni, G., 73 - Z -
Triffin, R., 196 Zuloaga, N., 209