[Epilogue]
This paper will hereby be finished for the time being. What I wanted to say in this paper is the next two things. The first is to prove that the communist society determines what Karl Marx predicted was a mistake. This proof is done in PartⅠof this paper. The second is to prove that: even if communist society is forcibly made by many sacrifices, there is little difference between the system of society in "the first phase of communist society" and the present-day capitalist society, and after all, "a higher phase of communist society" is a Utopian and has no possibility of the realization. This proof was done in PartⅡof this paper.
I am never an emotional anti-Communist. Rather, I positively felt sympathetic towards communism when I was a university student. But after having analyzed communism theory calmly, I come to the conclusion as above. That is: the "communist society which passed through a historical process" and "a higher phase of communist society" that Karl Marx said did not come true. But I do not think either that the present-day capitalist society is as good as it is now. I am rather a positive reformer. But I am worried about peoples denying the reality too much to go to extremes. Through groping of long time, the human being began pointing to "the golden mean." One of the basic ideas of "A Study of Economics as if People Mattered" by E. F. Schumacher, introduced as the last of this paper, is also "the golden mean" theory.
Lastly, I want to introduce a passage of "A Study of History" by Arnold J. Toynbee. "Not only the flash-in-the-pan of German National-Socialism and Italian Fascism but the apparently irresistible encroachment of planning on the once unregimented economies of the democratic countries suggests that the social structure of all countries in the near future is likely to be both national and socialist. Not only do the Capitalist and Communist regimes seem likely to continue side by side; it may well be that Capitalism and Communism are becoming different names for very much the same thing."(Abridgement of Volumes,Ⅰ-Ⅵ by D.C. Somervell, p.400)
Concluded.
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