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...consider ourselves fortunate that in the heterogeneous population of the Netherlands Indies, those elements of individuality and communal sense-though often not fully developed-are present, which have endowed Indonesian, Chinese and Hollander alike with the blessed gift of humor, the will for mutual appreciation and tolerance, and the power to stand united should-God forbid-we too be overcome by the catastrophes...
...children, went back to live in his native village. With overalled Betty Eskilsson, who announced that she had renounced the old trinity for a new one-nitrogen, calcium and superphosphate-Knut formed the Young People's Society to keep peasant boys on the farm through cooperatives and communal culture. World War II was on the way before the Young People's Society got its community clubhouse started, but the book ends with them digging away - a symbol of what Author Moberg thinks the post war world should look like...
...Communal ownership of the means of production, especially of natural resources "as a storehouse of divine bounty on which we all utterly depend...
...workers on communal farms he gave full title to the lands they till, thus replacing the Cárdenas communal-farm plan with a class of small homesteaders. Confiscated property was put under the Attorney General's control. Persons whose property was confiscated for anti-religious motives may now contest the confiscation...
...that end they stole a march on the Government with a program of post-war aims which, coming from any group, would be startling. Coming from the traditionally complacent and conservative Established Church it was little short of revolutionary. It called for unification of Europe in a cooperative commonwealth, communal ownership of the means of production, more religion and less liturgy. On the negative side it condemned the profit motive and the Church's own financial dependence on ancient perquisites and levies...