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Socialism:
America’s Real Revolution
Ernest
Conine
Most Americans don’t really think of themselves as
revolutionaries, because they are in the process of creating the first truly socialistic society in modern history. People
who think of the United States as a hidebound, change-resistant society owe it
to themselves to read The Unseen
Revolution, by economic philosopher Peter F. Drucker. Drucker’s fundamental point is mean of
production are owned by workers, then United states is the first truly
socialistic country. The average citizen is under the impression that United
States industry is owned and controlled by wealthy stockholders-people like the
Rockefeller, the Fords, the Gettys, and the DuPonts. Moreover, these holdings
are largely concentrated in what Marxists call the ”command positions” of our
economy – the one thousand largest industrial firms. Against this reality the
pretensions of European socialists, one on both sides of the Iron Curtain, are
simply ludicrous.
American liberals tend to point to Sweden as a country that is far ahead of the United States
in worker rights. The Swedish plan would take until long past the year 2000 to give the
pension funds
of its employees the ownership share (30 percent) which United States pension funds had already
attained in 1975. American’s pension fund socialism is an extremely well-kept secret. This is partly due to reluctance of
intellectuals, American and European, to accept the reality of a revolution.
The pension-fund revolution is still incomplete. But he has no persuasive answer to the problem of how worker-owners can appropriately be represented in the board room. It
is caught up in a new American revolution.
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