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...C.C.F. which Jolliffe led proposed more "social and economic planning on a bold and comprehensive scale" and public ownership of natural resources and industries. Said Jolliffe: "Every democratic country is moving toward more collectivist organization. . . . Shall it be collectivism of the authoritarian brand, or democratic collectivism? Dictatorship or cooperation?" The Ontario response surprised even C.C.F.s...
...budget can be balanced. How come, asks Moulton, that this is just what does not happen in war, where national income rises sharply but taxes lag far behind? The war, thinks Moulton, proves not the benefits of public spending (as Hansen argues) but all its inflationary difficulties and collectivist consequences...
...supreme example of combined nationalism and collectivism is Naziism. "To deny that this system works," says Author de Sales, "would be foolish. It has in fact worked so well that it has enabled Hitler -starting from scratch-to build up in six or seven years a collectivist society relatively so efficient that none of the other systems opposed to it, although possessing infinitely larger resources, has been able to compete with it as yet." As a result, the question for the democratic nations is: Will they be able to develop an economic society as efficient as the Nazi collectivist...
...great admirer of the New Deal. But he states without alarm that "the general trend of the New Deal has been toward socialization and centralization." The question, he says, is not whether democracy can be made to work according to capitalist or socialist formulas: "the dilemma is whether a collectivist society-that is, one founded on our real possibilities of production-can be established without destroying the essential principles upon which democracy rests...
...most challenging are the contributions of Father Smyth of the Society of the Catholic Commonwealth and of an anonymous senior who writes under the pseudonym of Clark Hamilton '43. After a long and somewhat tedious statement of early Christian dogma, Father Smyth concludes that Christianity is in essence a collectivist faith, that it must concern itself with the evils of this world, and that the only Christian solution of those ills is therefore a collectivist one. This article is more Leftist in tone than even the famed Malvern Conference, and demonstrates that the Church both at home and abroad...