The Next Step: A Plan for Economic World Federation

1. Bankruptcy and Chaos. 2. Localized Problems. 3. World Problems. 4. Competition for Economic Advantage. 5. Distribution of the World's Wealth. 6. The Livelihood Struggle. 7. G...

1. The Social Structure. 2. Specialization, Association, Co-operation. 3. Three Lines of Economic Organization. 4. Economic Forms. 5. Limitations on Capitalism. 6. The Growth of...

1. Maximum Advantage. 2. The Essentials for Maximum Returns. 3. Centralized Authority. 4. An Ideal Economic Unit. 5. Rewarding Energy. 6. The Ownership of the Economic Machinery...

1. World Outlook. 2. The Need of Organization. 3. Present-day Economic Authority. 4. Federation as a Way Out. 5. Building a Producers' Federation. 6. Four Groups of Federations....

1. The Basis for World Administration. 2. The Field of World Administration. 3. Five World Problems. 4. Work of the Administrative Boards. 5. The Resources and Raw Materials Boa...

1. Trying Things Out. 2. The Capitalist Experiment. 3. The Cost of Experience. 4. Education. 5. Pacing the Future. 6. Accumulating Social Knowledge. 7. Conscious Social Improvem...

Uncertainty and a sense of futility have gripped the world. They are manifesting themselves in unrest, disillusionment, the abandonment of ideals, opportunism, and a tragic conc...

chairman. His duties would correspond roughly with those of the present-day foreman, or with those of the shop-steward or shop chairman in some of the more advanced of the Briti...

e. Where plant committees were organized, it would be their duty to designate one of their members as chairman. This plant committee chairman would therefore be what, under pres...

district organization would be the judge of its own membership, and would be in a position to add such local economic units as were to its advantage in pursuit of its general po...

A. When the elections for membership of the district committee were held, the members of the plant committees, or of the shop committees where there were no plant committees, wo...

units, engaged in activities that fell within one of the main divisions of industry. It would be the judge of its own economic affairs and would be autonomous in all matters aff...

A. The members of this congress would be elected by districts, with a minimum of at least one member from each district, and an additional member from each district for each add...

e. The divisional congress picks from its own membership a divisional executive committee, which meets at intervals through the year, and is responsible for the affairs of the d...

A. The members of the divisional congresses, within these same industrial groups, are the candidates for election to the world congress. They are voted for directly by the worke...

e. The congress would pick a number of additional committees to deal with the various problems arising within each industry. These committees might be called policy committees....

members of the parliamentary delegation from that particular industrial group, but the details of representation from each of the major industrial groups would be left in the ha...

5. The executive committee would select, from its membership, a number of administrative boards, at the same time naming the chairman of each board. Each of these administrative...

of functioning, the parliament would be automatically dissolved, a special election would be held within ten days, a new parliament would be selected, and would assemble thirty...