Functional socialism

80 FUNCTIONAL SOCIALISM

circumstances as between Great Britain and Russia are not comparable; but is it not abundantly evident that a functional society can meet its Budget requirements far more easily than a predominantly financial society like Great Britain? Out of the total Russian revenue of 48,879,416,000 roubles, the personal income tax amounts only to 207,000,000 roubles.

NO MORE WAR

With conscious play and interplay between the State and the economic authority, scores of difficult international problems can be solved in amity and equity. If the root cause of modern war be primarily economic, then war is indefinitely held off if modern nations are equipped with economic authorities. ‘They would become a great enginery for peace and mutual economic expansion. In any event, there can be no question of the vast economic advance we ourselves would make when, at long last, we pay court to function and not to finance. It is in new principles of taxation that our first fruitful efforts must be made. We must not visualize the economic authority as struggling for economic power at the expense of the State. That way madness would lie. It is in the mutual cooperation of the spiritual and material forces, each conscious of the other’s possibilities and policies, that we can move forward from economic strength to wider and higher activities that now transcend the imagination.