Functional socialism

CAPITAL I41

a permanent charge: is, in sober truth, a debit, a liability, and not a credit.

These things will not come of their own accord. There is no inevitability in the destruction or modification of the capitalist system; there is no inevitability in the passage from a money to a credit economy; there is no inevitability in the conquest of scarcity and the advent of plenty. We may, unless we watch and pray, lose what we have gained. All will be frittered away and finally lost unless we have the will to power, coloured with the sure knowledge of the way we would go.