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The Gospel of Freedom *
Author(s) -
Oppenheimer Franz
Publication year - 1948
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1948.tb00701.x
Subject(s) - gospel , order (exchange) , estate , philosophy , citation , sociology , classics , law , history , theology , political science , finance , economics
THE DEEPEST ROOT of the present confusion about the future order of mankind is the conviction — as common as it is erroneous — that we have a choice between two systems only: totalitarianism in the form of either Fascism or Bolshevism, and our present political democracy, which is unanimously acknowledged to be far from perfect. But there is a third possibility: A perfect democracy, not only politically but also economically. Let us look to science for information about the condition and inner order of Perfect Democracy. It teaches the buried and forgotten gospel of Freedom, proclaimed by the great thinkers of the eighteenth century. The first condition of perfect democracy is equal opportunity for all, or, which is the same, free, untrammeled competition.