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...CAPITALIST MANIFESTO (265 pp.) -Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler -Random House...
...wife, Adler was the first person to see the book; U.S. readers will see it shortly under the sweepingly simple title Capitalism. So challenging did Adler find Kelso's ideas that he proposed the two men collaborate on a kind of popular preview. Says Adler confidently: "The Capitalist Manifesto is to Capitalism what The Communist Manifesto was to Das Kapital...
...Capitalist Manifesto approaches economics and political science, where expediency is apt to rule, in terms of morality and natural law. It asks not only "Will it work?" but above all "Is it just...
Economic Citizenship. The vision at the heart of The Capitalist Manifesto is that automation will make the machine the superslave of man. Just as in the Greek state the slave-owning few were freed from toil to pursue the duties of citizenship and the work of civilization, so all men could be similarly freed (argue K. & A.) in a future society where machines are slaves. In such a society, men could shun the "subsistence work" and "drudgery" involved in the production of "goods of the body" and-apart from the necessary tasks of management-turn to the arts and sciences...
Despite violent objections, The Capitalist Manifesto, by its very existence, refutes the charge that capitalist thought has lost the imaginative flexibility to cope with the challenges of the age. Above all, the book forces the reader to re-examine the foundation and the future of capitalism, not merely as an economic but as an ethical system. As the authors put it: "We cannot [unlike Marx and Engels] exhort them to engage in violence, and to do so without fear because they have nothing to lose but their chains . . . Men who think they already have all the liberty and justice they...