They may not in fact succeed and may not provide a kalotic life, any more than a dystrocratic country does. Yet, whether we speak of the luxuriating Central European countries before World War I, or of Western Europe, the U.S.A., and Japan today, what engages us is the immense energy and ability going into the accumulation and disposal of goods. It is what impressed Karl Marx also a hundred years ago, and the process has gone on unabated. Some say that this aggrandizement of commodities has occurred because of the underlying principle of laissez-faire, but we must not overlook the propensity of the bourgeoisie, as Marx said, to call upon state intervention when its interests required. The First New Nation was definitely not a hands-off nation.
Recent times speak more emphatically.
Typical was the partial nationalization of Italian industry in the 1930's by Mussolini, which Norman Kogan calls. The Fascist Government followed the policy of retaining the firms's old corporate identity, their old management, and their old policies. 5 Politics is by no means capable of subjection to a narrow economic ideology. The political system incorporates and reissues the economic dogma in its own ways. And to science must be added the private motivation.