Word: ownership
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fully expect government ownership of newspapers to be an issue in the 1940 Presidential campaign if the New Deal goes on unhindered...
...this withdrawal Labour and the Social Democrats concurred. If they had refused to do so, private ownership, the real issue of the class struggle, would have been clarified and its outcome hastened. To such an ordeal the progressive parties did not wish to commit themselves, and the capitalists of Germany and Italy took advantage of their hesitancy to install a regime of violent social reaction. Since the change was not a revolutionary transfer, but merely an assertion by the governing classes of their own actual power, it was not difficult to enlist, for the purpose, the support of a great...
Such is the rigid structure of capitalism, and when production at any cost is our aim, it and the private ownership upon which it is built work very well. But when technical advances make production outstrip the capacity to buy and it is useless to contend that they have not, capitalism cannot provide for the needs of this new economic society. Plan it, regulate it in any direction but semi-public utilities, and you destroy its internal harmony, you set loose productive forces whose sole control comes in collapse. The end is chaos in any case; in the United States...
...dispatch world trade into limbo, it should be obvious, as indeed it seemed once to have been obvious to the administration, that agricultural production must be soberly limited within the United States. The white hope of our agriculture, outside of the ideal solution which would consist in social ownership, is the stimulation of our internal market and purchasing power. Certainly no more lethal a buffoonery than the back-to-the-farm movement could be contrived in the face of this emergency, and yet the melody lingers on many an inflamed and persuasive lip, and threatens to seduce us. The administration...
...partial disintegration of the centralized state power. Dr. G. C. S. Benson, Instructor in Government, posed the question of who would control the state if the state tried to control economic life. He suggested that America's failure in public utility regulation would lead to an attempt at public ownership rather than control...