Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1737

Pencil notes never used, for an introduction to “The Trojan Horse of Land Reform”

July 1954

The communist conspiracy — plotting world conquest and world enslavement — has many aspects and activities. But its active progress and the considerable extent of its acceptance has been possible by reason of two conditions in the historic modern background — the one a fact, the other an illusion. The fact is a widespread condition of poverty, insufficiency and suffering in contrast with the relative opulence and exemption of comparatively few persons and few populations in the world. The illusion is that the riches of the few are what cause the poverty of the many. This springs from the fact that until recent times the few could become rich only by seizing from the many and thus keeping them poor — and this only by political persons who exercised the power of conquest and destruction in time of war and tribute or taxation in the interims of peace.

     That the rich deepened the poverty of the poor was no illusion of the ancient regimes. In this respect Asia is still ancient and still sunken in the poverty of the ages past. But in the Western world, great wealth is created by those whose non-political administration of small properties causes them to grow great. This great wealth is not accumulated by conquest or by confiscation. It is created by the non-coercive administration of capital on behalf of a public clientele whom it does not impoverish but enriches by the mutual process of contract and exchange.¹⁷³⁷