But once more the people intervened. It may be recalled that one of the “Eight Points” of the agreement imposed on the Cabinet by the Trade Unions after the _coup d’état_ by Kapp, provided that the Committee on Socialization be at once reconvened, that representatives of vocational associations be added to it, that new industries be socialized and that the socialization of industries already decreed be enforced. In conformity with these engagements, the Cabinet in the beginning of May, 1920, submitted to the Reichstag a project of law that provided for the municipalization of a certain number of industrial enterprises, and reconvened the Committee on Socialization. The members of this committee, who were authorized to add to their number new colleagues on the condition that the total number of the members should not exceed thirty, were given a double mission. First they were to study and clarify the fundamental principles of socialism, for the purpose of determining the general lines along which the capitalist system should be transformed. Then they were to submit concrete and immediate proposals, which, inspired by the laws of collective economy, would permit the commonwealth to utilize directly the natural resources and the sources of power. The committee had also to study how the industries already socialized were functioning, what results had been attained and to propose, if necessary, all needful changes. 2.--THE COLLECTIVE ECONOMY. All these labours, all these investigations, all these discussions of the problem of socialization had one result. They have shown how confused, even among the socialists, is the concept of socialism; that behind the same word may hide two economic systems extremely different, and that a whole series of almost imperceptible gradations may exist between the capitalist system and complete socialism. The Constitution raises the following principle: Economic organization must cease to be dominated by considerations of private interests in order that hereafter it may be inspired exclusively by considerations of public interests. Private interests must be subordinated to collective interests. The present economic régime, based on private ownership, must be substituted by a new régime based on collective ownership (Gemeinwirtschaft). What is understood by this?