Bureaucracy Is Not An Obstacle To Democracy

It Is Quite Possible That Future Generations Will Look Upon Arguments About The Inferiority Of The Socialist Plan As We Look Upon Adam Smith's Argument About Joint Stock Companies Which, Also, Were Simply False.

There Exists No More Democratic Institution Than The Market

In Economic Life Competition Is Never Completely Lacking, But Hardly Ever Is It Perfect.

The Banker, Therefore, Is Not So Much Primarily A Middleman In The Commodity "purchasing Power" As A Producer Of This Commodity. However, Since All Reserve Funds And Savings Today Usually Flow To Him, And The Total Demand For Free Purchasing Power, Whether Existing Or To Be Created, Concentrates On Him, He Has Either Replaced Private Capitalists Or Become Their Agent; He Has Himself Become The Capitalist Par Excellence.

The Very Foundation Of Private Property And Free Contracting Wears Away In A Nation In Which Its Most Vital, Most Concrete, Most Meaningful Types Of Private Property And Free Contracting Disappear From The Moral Horizon Of The People.