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The argument has always been made that the trouble with capitalism is that it's materialistic, while collectivism can afford to pay attention to the nonmaterial. But the experience has been the opposite. There are no societies that have emphasized the purely material requisites of well-being as much as collectivist. A great majority of people is always concerned with material self-interest, but in collectivist societies that great majority dominates the policy and the minority is suppressed. A free society, a market society, permit those in a minority to pursue their own ends; in fact it is in the free societies that there has been a far greater development of the nonmaterial, spiritual, artistic aspect of well-being. (it) |
