ABSTRACT
The argument is that, whatever the present sector of free goods and services in the statist countries, they could—if that were honestly desired by the political leadership—expand the free-goods sector more rapidly than is usually admitted by most economists. Suppose a socialist economy in which there is public ownership of all enterprises. Communism requires as prerequisites changes in material conditions, changes in economic structures, and changes in consciousness. The economic arguments against free goods were examined and found wanting. Racism, then, has resulted from certain factors in the social environment, particularly vested economic interests that profit from it under capitalism, and vested political interests that have found it a useful tool in statist countries. Communism means an end to exploitation and alienation of the worker’s product by economic or political means. A communist economy—even 80 percent, not to speak of full communism—presupposes a united, peaceful world as both cause and effect.
