Abstract

Planning and Socialism

The article presents some propositions related to planning and socialism in the U.S. The first and the simplest and the basic one is that world peace depends on full employment in the United States. If people do not achieve full employment there, then the disillusion of returning veterans, the animosity of capital toward the makers of social reform, their power over the press, all these things will be used to turn people in the direction of imperialist adventure, particularly in the direction of a war with Russia Federation. The job of preserving world peace begins at home, with the job of creating full employment. The second proposition is the recognition by both major political parties that the creation and maintenance of full employment is a governmental responsibility.