tailieunhanh - Luận án kinh tế - "Human and action" - Chapter 27

XXVII. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MARKET 1. The Idea of a Third System RIVATE ownership of the means of production (market economy or capitalism) and public ownership of the means of production (socialism or communism or “planning”) can be neatly distinguished. | Part Six The Hampered Market Economy XXVII. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MARKET 1. The Idea of a Third System Private ownership of the means of production market economy or capitalism and public ownership of the means of production socialism or communism or planning can be neatly distinguished. Each of these two systems of society s economic organization is open to a precise and unambiguous description and definition. They can never be confounded with one another they cannot be mixed or combined no gradual transition leads from one of them to the other they are mutually incompatible. With regard to the same factors of production there can only exist private control or public control. If in the frame of a system of social cooperation only some means of production are subject to public ownership while the rest are controlled by private individuals this does not make for a mixed system combining socialism and private ownership. The system remains a market society provided the socialized sector does not become entirely separated from the non-socialized sector and lead a strictly autarkic existence. In this latter case there are two systems independently coexisting side by side a capitalist and a socialist. Publicly owned enterprises operating within a system in which there are privately owned enterprises and a market and socialized countries exchanging goods and services with nonsocialist countries are integrated into a system of market economy. They are subject to the law of the market and have the opportunity of resorting to economic If one considers the idea of placing by the side of these two systems or between them a third system of human cooperation under the division of labor one can always start only from the notion of the market economy never from that of socialism. The notion of socialism with its rigid monism and centralism that vests the powers to choose and to act in one will exclusively does not allow of any compromise or concession this .