It means that, though the fruits of an individual's strength or genius may have provided the community or the State with much imereased wealth, if in an idle moment he happens to desire a dark blue necktie, he must procure it from that Jone purveyor, State, which may not have provided dark blue neckties, which may or may not approve of dark blue neckties. If it does not approve, he cannot commission another te provide a dark blue necktie for him; he must go without. This sounds childish, but it carries the communist theory to its tiltimate conclusion, which is that the State, whatever it may be, determines not evly production and consumption:, but is the final arbiter of tastes, needs-and want It means that some sort of an organization, composed of ordinary individuals, now necessarily of any higher intell~ gence than the average mechanto who mends your riesha, shall deter-mino whether the community ought to like light clothes or dark clothes, bread ov rye bread, upright pianos or grand pianos, perhaps even blonde wives or brunetic ones when it gets into its proper stride.
Communism means the State conscription of labour, as it has meant in Russia.
Communism means the State ownership, not oily of such public—utilities as railways, telegraphs and highways, but State ownership and operation of every form of industry and manufacture. If means that if a State factory is failing. to produce the sort of cloth which a certain community wants, no man may set tp-an industry te supply this want and expect to be rewarded for it. His duty as a citizen is to tend a certain machine, in a prescribed government factory, turning out the sorb of thing that the State thinks the community ought to want, for as many hours a day as the State sees fit to indicate.
Communism frowns on home industry. It has a passion for machine work under factory conditions. The man who would rather sit in his own woodshed and construct a beautiful table when he ought to be in a factory turning out equally useful if not equally. beautiful tables by machinery, is a heretic and a waster.
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