The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolutionWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Religion
The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolution
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Social problems; Sociology; Utopias
The germs of such really scientific economics exist already in the
study of industrial organisation and industrial psychology. As the
science of industrial psychology in particular develops, we shall
find all this discussion of ownership, profit, wages, finance and
accumulation, which has been treated hitherto as the primary issues
of economics, falling into place under the larger enquiry of what
conventions in these matters, what system of money and what conceptions
of property, yield the greatest stimulus and the least friction in that
world-wide system of co-operation which must constitute the general
economic basis to the activities of a unified mankind.
Manifestly the supreme direction of the complex of human economic
activities in such a world must centre upon a bureau of information and
advice, which will take account of all the resources of the planet,
estimate current needs, apportion productive activities and control
distribution. The topographical and geological surveys of modern
civilised communities, their government maps, their periodic issue
of agricultural and industrial statistics, are the first crude and
inco-ordinated beginnings of such an economic world-intelligence. In
the propaganda work of David Lubin, a pioneer whom mankind must not
forget, and in his International Institute of Agriculture in Rome,
there were the beginnings of an impartial review month by month and
year by year of world production, world needs and world transport. Such
a great central organisation of economic science would necessarily
produce direction; it would indicate what had best be done here, there
and everywhere, solve general tangles, examine, approve and initiate
fresh methods and arrange the transitional process from old to new.
It would not be an organisation of will, imposing its will upon a
reluctant or recalcitrant race; it would be a direction, just as a map
is a direction. A map imposes no will on anyone, breaks no one in to
its “policy.” And yet we obey our maps.
The will to have the map, full, accurate and up-to-date and the
determination to have its indications respected, would have to pervade
the whole community. To nourish and sustain that will must be the task
not of any particular social or economic division of the community but
of the whole body of religious-minded people in that community. The
organisation and preservation of that power of will is the primary
undertaking, therefore, of a world revolution aiming at universal
peace, welfare and happy activity.
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