ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the performance of statism in its most important noneconomic aspects, beginning with waste and pollution. The problem of alienation under statism has many facets, and each has given rise to different, partially contradictory theories. “The ideology of market socialism sees the roots of alienation in bureaucratic manipulation of men both in economic and in political life”. Socialists have always claimed that capitalism and the private profit motive are the main cause of imperialism. The public firms engaged in foreign trade may still make some extra profits out of unequal treaties imposed on East European countries, but these are small amounts in terms of aggregate Soviet incentive to imperialism, and no Soviet individual makes private profit from foreign trade. The waste of human resources in the Soviet Union as a result of such discrimination is, however, perhaps less than in the United States.
