The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-04-16

tive students of the Soviet economy which should be
lied with the utmost careulness have in mind the opinion
the planned economy of the USSR as such is rreconc
able with the spirit and aims of Cooperation that the idea of
voluntary association is based sefhep and efreliance
that Cooperation organized from the by the is
alien to the idea of Cooperation ITSELF that Cooperation al
based cooperative education which keep
pace with the forced growth of co-operaves, I'm
doubleday objection of this very The objective
to it should always lead to consideration of of the
most serious problems with which the theory of the nerna
ona Cooperative Movement confronted today And this
is the quesonwhether the cooperative form of enterprise
reconcable with the system of planned This
on however, be answered effectively only the problem
will be considered the international SCALE rather than
the framework of Soviet
The size of this article does not make it possible to analyze
this problem whole wish only that objective
analysis definitely leads the conclusion that the system of
planned does not necessarily create condition
reconciabe with the spirit and aims of Cooperation only
changes its position And this is exactly the of the Coop
erative Movement in the Soviet Union
Ultimate Aims of Cooperation
my opinion that bridge of historical traditions pir
ua values and ultimate goals be definitely established be-
tween the cassica cooperation of the old personal---very.
Russia and the Soviet cooneratve movement
something than be formulated by Rochdae Pn
cples To make the human being master of the economic life
and to make capital his servant the ultimate aim of Coop
Grafton AS it stands today the network of economic relations
mas acquired an existence and on the socaed
free markets of materials labor and capital those economic
relations become mpersonal and separated from social rea
tons Undoubtedly for the purposes of economic analysis and
study such abstraction needed But in the light of build
day. universe OF economic men, OF business OF abstract
Monies in which all human elements disappear has value
unless negrates with social economy based
the foundation OF ethics and moral values And this exactly
what the cooperative enterprise offers it reconce coor
mates, and ntegraes business and social relations
In the final analysis the so-caed Rochdae Principles of
Cooperation nothing than moral opinons
vote, patronage refunds democratic CONTROL etc.
all these rules derived from the purely moral principle of
equality of and equitable mutually Injection of
good dose Of ethical moral and spiritual vauesths is
hing of which the system of the prevailing economic relations
badly in need today. And if this is the case then
admit that the future world is being built only the
where technical inventions found
Mechanical devices introduced second day. but also
there in the modest and primitive cooperative
Uzbekstan in the farthest of the Soviet Union
The shortcomings of the Cooperative Movement of old
already forgotten yet the of Beakshn the
aher of the old Siberian Cooperation the brothers Lugn
1eresheg Blandov Brun and the glory of the former
Cooperation still alive The deficiency perhaps
perhaps bureaucracy often presumably
akng place in Soviet cooperaves belong those things pr
which appear and then by The for social
and the eternal spiritual value of the principles which
the cooperative organizations of the people of
Soviet Union will passthey will remain forever