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prise and property. The development of the stock company
is partly responsible for this; even more responsible however,
is the increasing indebtedness of the enterprises. The latter
really no longer belonged to the entrepreneurs.
..ae
To speak of a difference between property and state was only
another way of saying that the division of surplus value was still
largely determined by a decentralized competition. It is now deter·
mined by a centralized competition. Those who lose in this sharp·
ened competition see in the "new order" not only a new arrange–
ment in the distribution of surplus value but the end of all social
life because it means the end of
their capitalistic existence.
Those
who win in this battle will pose as the creators of a "new society,"
a better society, for it is a society that does secure
for them
a bet–
ter capitalistic existence. For the workers, however, no
new
prob–
lem arises. Their goal remains the establishment of a
direct
zmity
between production and consumption and thus the abolition of the
existence of a separate class or political group that controls capital
and exploits labor.
•E. Wagemann,
Wirtscha/tspolitische Strategie;
p. 341.
