tailieunhanh - Liberalism phần 10

Như nó đã không được chứng minh, không phải là một hệ thống xã hội khác nhau sẽ được tốt hơn, nhưng rằng nó sẽ có khả năng được thực hiện ở tất cả các. Nhưng điều này đã không được thực hiện. Khoa học đã thành công trong việc cho thấy rằng | Liberalism and the Political Parties socialism took on a special significance. The idea of a socialist society to which one cannot in spite of its necessarily inherent defects which we have already discussed in detail deny a certain grandeur of conception served to conceal and at the same time to vindicate the weakness of the position taken by the parties of special interests. It had the effect of diverting the attention of the critic from the activities of the party to a great problem which whatever one may think of it was at all events deserving of serious and exhaustive consideration. In the last hundred years the socialist ideal in one form or another has found adherents among many sincere and honest people. A number of the best and noblest men and women have accepted it with enthusiasm. It has been the guiding star of distinguished statesmen. It has achieved a dominant position at the universities and has served as a source of inspiration to youth. It has so filled the thoughts and fed the emotions of both the past and the present generation that history will some day quite justly characterize our era as the age of socialism. In the last decades in all countries people have done as much as they could to make the socialist ideal a reality by nationalizing and municipalizing enterprises and by adopting measures designed to lead to a planned economy. The defects necessarily involved in socialist management its unfavorable effects on the productivity of human labor and the impossibility of economic calculation under socialism everywhere brought these endeavors to the point where virtually every step further in the direction of socialism threatened too flagrant an impairment of the supply of goods available to the public. From sheer necessity one had to pause on the road to socialism and the socialist ideal even while preserving its ideological ascendancy became in practical politics merely a cloak for the labor parties in their scramble for privileges. This could