Chamberlin William Henry, Komunizm
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COLLECTIVISM
A FALSE UTOPIA
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COLLECTIVISM
A FALSE UTOPIA
BY
WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERLIN
NEW YORK
JftfACMILLAN COMPANY
1937
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INTRODUCTION
IT often happens that the absence of something is
the best means of teaching a sense of its value. And
the strongest positive conviction I carried away from
a stay of almost twelve years in the Soviet Union
was of the absolute, unconditional value of human
liberty. This conviction was strengthened by a shorter
period of observation of the workings of another
type of collectivist dictatorship in Germany.
Largely as a result of my impressions of the
Soviet Union and of Germany I came to the con-
clusion that the most important issue which confronts
civilization in the present century is that of democ-
racy versus dictatorship. A question that, in my opin-
ion, far transcends in importance the precise point
at which the line may be drawn between public and
private enterprise in economic life, is whether the
people are to own the state or whether the state is
to own the people, as it very definitely does in the
modern-style dictatorship. It is no exaggeration to
say that the whole future of Western civilization, with
its many humanist and individualist roots, is very
intimately bound up with the answer which history
will supply to this question.
The book attempts to set forth a reasoned case
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