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 is responsible for grave misunderstandings and wasteful errors in the socialist movement of our time. Many Liberals and others with no party attachments are repelled by the rubber stamp ideal of a political and economic bureaucracy, figuring as the will of the people, while forcing their official will upon the whole political and economic life of the community with total disregard to recalcitrant minorities and no recognition of the freedom of individuals in choosing their own kinds of work and ways of living. Though these charges are repelled by exponents of socialism, they are not answered effectively so long as socialists fail to discriminate between property and improperty in economic operations, and between the economic processes which are rightly socialised because they supply the common needs of consumers and those left to private enterprise because they supply individual needs. This is not a policy of compromise and concession, but a right adjustment of political-economic government to the nature of man as worker-consumer and citizen.