In the organisation of economic life, that familiarity with business,
which comes from practical experience and specialist training,
will give the point of view needed by the person at the head of
affairs. In the "rights" organisation, the laws and administration
will give effect to the general sense of right in the dealings
of persons and groups with one another. The economic organisation
will assist the formation of Associations amongst people who from
their calling, or as consumers, have the same interests or similar
requirements. And this network of Associations, working together,
will build up the whole fabric of industrial economy, The economic
organisation will grow up on an associative basis, and out of the
links between the Associations. The work of the Associations will be
purely economic in character, and be carried on on a basis of "rights"
provided by the rights-organisation. These Associations, being able
to make their economic interests recognised in the representative and
administrative bodies of the economic organisation, will not feel any
need to force themselves into the legislative or executive government
of the "rights-State" (as, for instance, a Landowners' League, or
Manufacturers' Party, or a Socialist party representing an industrial
programme), in order to effect there what they have no power to achieve
within the limits of the economic life. If the "rights-State" again
takes no part whatever in any branch of industrial economy, then the
institutions it establishes will be such only as spring from the sense
of right amongst its members. Although the persons who sit on the
representative body of the rights-State may, and of course will, be
the same as are taking an active part in economic life, yet, owing to
the division of function, economic life will not be able to exert such
an influence on the "rights life," that the health of the whole body
social is undermined,--as it can be, when the state itself organises
branches of economic life, with representatives of the economic world
as state-legislators, making laws to suit economic interests.
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