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CHAPTER 2 FREEDOM
The key to production is the incentive of the marketplace, the right to
keep what is produced, the Right to Private Property! The right of the
individual to better his life by producing more than he consumes and to keep
what he produces.
This economic model has many illustrations in the world today. One is
occurring today in the Soviet Union, where the basic philosophy that
motivates the government is the proposition that whatever is produced in the
society belongs to all in that society. However, even in Russia, there is a small
percentage of the country where the individual can keep what he produces:
According to the government's own figures..., private plots
with a mere three percent of the nation's own acreage accounted for
30 percent of the gross harvest, other than grains, 40 percent of all
cattle-breeding, 60 percent of the country's potato crops, 40 percent
of all vegetables and milk, 68 percent of all meat products.
Their fruit yields... are double those of state orchards for
equivalent areas, its potato harvest per hectare two-thirds higher
than on collective farms.
Even in grain, which is a very minor element in the private
sector, it produces one-third more per sown unit than an average
socialized farm. 1
Why is just a small percentage of cultivated land area able to out-
produce the remainder? It is because the producers can keep what they
produce! The producer has the right to Private Property! Governments can
not take what has been produced in this free market environment, for any
reason.
People who are allowed to keep what they have produced will always
out-produce those who have their production taken from them for the benefit
of society. And no one can force the producer to equal his peak production
in a free market.
Even Communist China has discovered the truth of this proposition,
according to an article in Time magazine on the Jun Tan brigade. It is here
that China allows the workers to keep for themselves all the produce over the
government set quota.
The brigade's leader is quoted as saying: "All the peasants feel happy.
They work twice as hard as they used to because they know that if they work
harder, they can make more money."
The article cited the results of China's experiment with the right to
Private Property: "Its per-person annual revenue of $201 is well above the
national rural average of only $91." 2
But even with these glaring examples of the wisdom of the right to
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