Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
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Towards an enduring peace : $b A symposium of peace proposals and programs 1914-1916
Peace; World War, 1914-1918 -- Peace
The organizer-reward form of organization also appears to have its own
peculiar tendency towards instability. This was true of the feudal
systems of the past, and is true of the great business corporations of
to-day, both of which are examples of the organizer-reward form. In
the feudal system the reward offered by the organizers in return for
service was protection; in modern industry the reward is a money wage. In
both cases, however, when subordinate members of the organization have
been ignorant, there has been some tendency towards the exploitation
as well as the utilization of such members. To the extent, however,
that intelligence has developed, there has been less and less voluntary
continuance of organizations whose utility has been thought by the
subordinate members to be limited to one class in the organization.
Force has been met by force. Since intelligence is increasing, it is not
fortuitous that the great internal problem of advanced nations is the
control of such exploitive industry as exists, while the great political
problem of less advanced nations is the struggle for democracy. In both
cases the struggle is to prevent the organizer-reward form from becoming
the organizer-force form and to replace the instability and the lack of
harmony of these forms by the greater stability and greater harmony of
the democratic-control-expert-executive form. Far more than is the case
in the other utility forms, the democratic form directs its policies with
a view to the welfare of all its members. Minorities are represented
on the executive staff. All members of the organization participate in
control. The danger of dissatisfaction on the part of non-executive
members is reduced to a minimum.
[Sidenote: National homogeneity means strength.]
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