Surely, Nothing Can Be More Plain Or

Capitalism Survive?—i Have Tried To Show That A Socialist Form Of Society Will Inevitably Emerge From An Equally Inevitable Decomposition Of Capitalist Society.

The Capitalist Engine Is First And Last An Engine Of Mass Production Which Unavoidably Also Means Production For The Masses. . . . It Is The Cheap Cloth, The Cheap Cotton And Rayon Fabric, Boots, Motorcars And So On That Are The Typical Achievements Of Capitalist Production, And Not As A Rule Improvements That Would Mean Much To The Rich Man. Queen Elizabeth Owned Silk Stockings. The Capitalist Achievement Does Not Typically Consist In Providing More Silk Stockings For Queens But In Bringing Them Within Reach Of Factory Girls.

Bureaucracy Is Not An Obstacle To Democracy But An Inevitable Complement To It.

Geniuses And Prophets Do Not Usually Excel In Professional Learning, And Their Originality, If Any, Is Often Due Precisely To The Fact That They Do Not.

Surely, Nothing Can Be More Plain Or Even More Trite Common Sense Than The Proposition That Innovation [...] Is At The Center Of Practically All The Phenomena, Difficulties, And Problems Of Economic Life In Capitalist Society.