Chap. 5 The way Out

"The construction of the atom bomb has brought about the effect that all people living in cities are threatened, everywhere and constantly, with sudden destruction." p.15 P3

• no international body can be effective without the power & authority to enforce its decisions
• the right of the individual state to solve it's international disputes on legal basis
• individual states must be prevented from making war by international body with the authority and wherewithal to enforce it

"Even more than the will for power, the fear of sudden attack will prove to be disastrous for us..." p.17 P7

Steps:

1. Mutual inspection by military powers of methods/installations for production of offensive weapons; interchange of scientific discoveries pertinent to creation thereof
2. Interchange of military/scientific personnel among nations
3. National armies should be disbanded or place under command of supranational authority
4. After cooperation of nations of highest military importance is secured, all nations incorporated given their voluntary decision to do so.

Chap 4. Towards a World Gov't

• world governing body necessary for dispensation of offensive weaponry
• "A person or a nation can be considered peace loving only if it is ready to cede its military force to the international authorities and to renounce every attempt or even the means, of achieving its interests abroad by the use of force." p. 14 P2

Chap 3. Science & Society

• science leads to new tech
• tech leads to reduced labor need/drives down cost
• reduced cost leads to competition/devalued currency/weakened purchasing power
• -> weak $$ hurts labor class?

• shortened travel / created new, efficient means of destruction
• communication - easier to control larger group of people....fosters dictatorship and empire?

Chap 2 The Negro Question

• (then) current view of Black folk as inferior is indicative of desire to keep them subjugated as during slavery
• Aristotle's view of slaves as inferior despite "whiteness"

Chap 1. Why Humanism?

"The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence on society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset,  as an organic tie, a protective force, but rather as a threat to his natural rights, or even to his economic existence... Unknowingly prisoner of their own egotism, they feel insecure, lonely, and deprived of the naive, simple, and unsophisticated enjoyment of life. Man can find meaning in life, short and perilous as it is, through devoting himself to society." p.5 P 2

""The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil." p.5-6

• value of workers not based on what they produce but on minimum overhead to fulfill producers needs

"The result of these developments* is an oligarchy of private capital the enormous power of which cannot be checked even by a democratically organized political society." p.6 P 3

• technology leads to less need for human workers & more money in fewer hands*

"The profit motive, in conjunction with competition among capitalists, is responsible for an instability in the accumulation & utilization of capital which leads to increasingly severe depressions...to a huge waste of labor...crippling of the social conscious of individuals..." p. 7 P 3

• education indoctrinates competition, "worship acquisitive success" 
• solution is a socialist economy and educational system based on social goals
• "Planned economy" is not the same as "socialism"
• pure socialism, like pure capitalism, is not a complete solution

Chap 1 Why Socialism?

"The individual has become more conscious than ever of his dependence on society. But he does not experience this dependence as a positive asset, as an organic tie, as a protective force, but rather as a threat his natural  rights, or even to his economic existence." p.5 ph 2

(I'd've put "natural rights" in quotes)

"Uknowingly prisoners of their own egotism