Success Depends On Intuition, On Seeing What

It Is Quite Possible That Future Generations Will Look Upon Arguments About The Inferiority Of The Socialist Plan As We Look Upon Adam Smith's Argument About Joint Stock Companies Which, Also, Were Simply False.

For The Duration Of Its Collective Life, Or The Time During Which Its Identity May Be Assumed, Each Class Resembles A Hotel Or An Omnibus, Always Full, But Always Of Different People.

In One Important Sense, Marxism Is A Religion. To The Believer It Presents, First, A System Of Ultimate Ends That Embody The Meaning Of Life And Are Absolute Standards By Which To Judge Events And Actions; And, Secondly, A Guide To Those Ends Which Implies A Plan Of Salvation And The Indication Of The Evil From Which Mankind, Or A Chosen Section Of Mankind, Is To Be Saved.

The State Has Been Living On A Revenue Which Was Being Produced In The Private Sphere For Private Purposes And Had To Be Deflected From These Purposes By Political Force. The Theory That Construes Taxes On The Analogy Of Club Dues Or Of The Purchase Of The Services Of, Say, A Doctor Only Proves How Far Removed This Part Of The Social Sciences Is From Scientific Habits Of Mind.

Nothing Is So Treacherous As The Obvious.