The people's voice., 1941-06-04
Facing Facts

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away parts the
if mentioned at ALL reports by Paul Nc
Mutt federal security administrator Washington May
laid most damning charges otherwise-on the
doorstep of national economy and social order.
His that fortyve million citizens of country
are suffering from diets calls for an anavss of the
for such conditions existing with warehouses; mills
packing plants and codstorage facilities bugng with food OF
every conceivable kind
five million people undenourished because they lack
chasing But this only another question:
of why these people unable to buy adequate food And
the answer to this question is not SO simple 1t turn raises
the question of what fundamentally with capital
istc And when that anayzed by he is
called Communist "UnAmerican' whatever the
rent opprobrous red-baiting epthet may be.
Every honest economist will admit that machines dspacng
manpower having space decades developed
productive capacity to undreamed of exten brought about
condition of lowered purchasing and increased png
of good for which there market IN the commonly
cepted definition of the word There demand true
enough but percentage of the goods produced
profit surplus that goods produced of
ability of the workers of the country purchase profit
from those owning the of production and controlling the
channels of distribution.
This elementary trusm that is indlsputable. IT, for
the of presenting concrete example, all industry in
country produces say billion dollars worth goods
that it entitled million dollars of profit for do
ng follows that it's market here the workers in industry
do NOT qe This million of dollars claimed as profit bv those
owning Therefore the million dollars of goods
remain without market and by the profit surplus
until sauraon point is reached; saturation point
which has the past few years been relieved by pump
priming increasing the public debt order place
purchasing in the hands of the worker made idle be-
finally the only result be that the useless worker kept
after fashion, and the profits for the comparatively
small group controlling industry keeps ping proportion
with the mounting public debt
Under economy such which is in operation
throughout practically the entire world call the capitalist
economy profit SYSTEM free enterprise anything
WILL the cod brutal fact is that constantly expand to
the profit surplus find market somewhere
This of the root of socaed power politics. the
struggle for market domination in the world nations pitng
their strength against others inevitably leading to human
slaughter Dignity this by hghsoundng phrases that
human intellect DEVISE you cannot alter the facts
you make actually intelligent than the action of the
dog chasing its tail
Why don't democracy do something about it? Why
don't change system to fit machine and
people bring about abundance for a Why do
fortyfve million people suffering from inadequate
diets the midst of plenty? So back to that question
We may that for the most part is due to the instructive
the part of the human animal to change That
change might be better conditions will not be to
action The controlled press periodicals of all
kinds descriptions keep him confused He does not think
things through
So $4,000 900 people existing
inadequate diets enjoying the benefits of half starving under
free enterprise the capitalist profit system But
had better begin to consider just where continuation
going land