Political Ideals

by Bertrand Russell · audio summary, about 6 min

Political institutions must nurture creative rather than possessive impulses, replacing capitalist wage-slavery and bureaucratic state control with industrial self-government and international federation.

Key ideas

• Political institutions should be designed to foster shared creative impulses rather than competitive possessive greed.
• Capitalism and the wage system crush worker initiative and freedom through constant fear of dismissal and destitution.
• State socialism risks replacing private tyranny with an equally oppressive, stagnant bureaucratic monopoly.
• Industrial self-government and group devolution distribute real power to workers while safeguarding personal initiative.
• Enduring world peace requires sovereign nations to surrender external military force to a federal international government.

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