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CHAPTER 4 ECONOMIC TERMS
Since each society needs Consumption Goods to survive, it follows that
the society needs the productive efforts of all members of that society, or it
will fail.
There are only two ways by which these goods can be produced: either
through the use of force against the producing individuals, or through the
creation of an economic environment wherein the individual is encouraged
to produce the maximum quantity of Consumption Goods.
All Capitalistic societies soon discover that all Capital Goods tend to
deteriorate through time and usage and therefore lose their udlity. The blow-
gun in the primitive society breaks or bends and becomes worthless. When
this occurs, the tribesman must discard the useless Capital Good and
construct a replacement.
But other Capital Goods, humans themselves, also lose their utility.
They grow tired, old or become injured. There are societies today that also
discard tired, old and injured human Capital Goods as well as old, dred or
broken Capital Goods such as a broken blow-gun. One such society is the
nation of Russia. A Russian native, Igor Gouzenko in his book The Iron
Curtain, confirmed this, by writing: "Lishnetzy is the Russian word for the
aged and ailing who have become the superfluous ones. ... as an ardent
young Communist I never regarded the Lishnetzy as something monstrous.
It seemed practical and just to me then. As Komsonols (young Commu-
nists) ... we had actually reached the conclusion that when one became a
lishnetz (an old Capital Good), that is one condemned to this form of civic
extermination, one should be duty bound to free the country of a useless
consumer by having the courage to commit suicide. That opinion was
nationally encouraged to such an extent that, even today, the suicide rate in
Russia is higher than in any other country in the world." 2
If Capitalism, then, is an economic system that utilizes Capital Goods to
produce Consumption Goods, what is the difference between the Commu-
nist system and the Capitalistic system in the United States? Both systems
utilize the same type of Capital Goods: the factories, the railroads, and the
other factors of producdon.
The difference is not in the existence of these Capital Goods, it is the
ownership of the goods. In the Communist system, the state owns the Capital
Goods, and in the Free Enterprise system, a better name for America's
economic system, the individuals own the Capital Goods.
In brief, the difference between the two systems can be summarized thus:
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Capital Goods
Economic System Owned By: Controlled By:
Free Enterprise private owners private owners
Communism the state the state