Evening star., 1936-05-26

thinks also that the Socialist state
may be democratically administered,
In some still very distant future, gen.
erations hence, when the last vestige
of bourgeois ideas shall have been
bred out OF the population. Until
that time the Socialist state will be
run and administered by the Dictator
ship OF a party oligarchy..
First Premise Rejected.
Now, the New Deal does not accept
the first and essential premise Of So
cialism-the naturalization or sociali-
zation of ownership. 1t Is a hodge
podge of q hundred conflicting ideas,
emotions and programs. On the So
cial side. the parent of the New Deal
Is certainly not Karl Marx. 1t Is,
rather, Jane Addams, the Henry
Street Settlement, and even the Jun
ior League. Mr.. Roosevelt is himself
anything but proletarian. Rather,
he is feudal in his social feeling. He
Is sorry for the poor. He thinks that
they should have better houses, better
educations, more security in youth
and old age, and that the rich or
well-to-do should give 1t to them.
His preoccupation with his immense
mail, with the thousands Of letters
which come to him from the poor
who are grateful for some favor of
the Federal Government, Is revel-
atory of his attitude. He surrounds
himself with people who are pernle-
ated with the social service view
point. No one has come of better,
amongst his encourage, than Harry
Hopkins and Mr.. Hopkins staff. And
the relief department is full of social
workers whose viewpoint toward the
unemployed is essentially that Of
settlement worker toward a case"
Mr.. Hopkins and numbers of his
workers have inclined toward Up
ton Sinclair's "E. P. I. c." scheme,
which Is essentially a plan to set up
a separate socialistic society of the
unemployed, on the waste products
Of the rich capitalistic system The
idea is one to make Karl Marx rise
vomiting from his grave!
The New Deal economic theory Is
not at all clear. Rather, one might
say, there are in the New Deal rep
resentatives Of nearly every economic
theory. There are those who believe
in small business and the widespread
distribution of property. There are
collectiviSts, Of one sort or another.
But the dominant theory is obviously
most clearly embodied in the N. R. A.,
the A. A. A. and the Guffey coal act.
That all Of them have been invali-
dated by the Supreme Court is be-
side the point. And the tendency Of
all three Of them is not to abolish
ownership or modify it but rather to
freeze 1t where 1t is, make 1t increas-
ingly diff1cult for new enterprise to
enter a closed field, and therefore to
encourage the consolidation Of wealth
in the hands Of the more powerful
interests, their control balanced BY
powerful trades unions and regulated
by Government.
Monopolies Accepted.
The administration apparently ac-
cepts the growth Of monopolies as an
inevitable development OF capitalism,
and would even hasten the process. but
subject these bodies to a greater
amount of State control In other
words, the process which has been
developing for go years in America
is not checked, but rather accelerated
by the New Deal and was extended
through the A. A. A. to agriculture
also. 1t is true that Mr. Wallace IN
his phamphlet America Must Choose"
posed the issue as between greater
elasticity and competition for industry
as well as for agriculture. or the ex-
tension Of monopolistic practices plus
Government control to agriculture as
well as to industry. Mr.. Wallace OBJ
viously prefers the former, but he
chose the latter. And nowhere was
there any assault on ownership. On
the contrary. nothing has been done
by the New Deal TO modify the sys-
tenn of tenancy on the Southern plan
tations. What has happened is that
land owners have been saved from
bankruptcy in return for functioning
under State control.
The logical end of a growing State
control over business without effect
ing any change in ownership is not
socialism. 1t is fascism. That is
what fascism is.
(Copyright, 1886, New York Tribune, Inc.J