Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2839

Penned remarks by Heath on six small, note-pad sheets fastened into two sets by pins and separated loosely by a small, 3.5 x 5 lined sheet of six-hole notebook paper

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Democracy is

     Voluntary exchange of services and property

 

Autocracy is

     Coercive seizure of services and property

 

All governments are autocratic, since the Norman Conquest.

 

Government by taxation and coercion instead of by exchange cannot be democratic

 

 

All wealth not in consumers’ hands is Capital

 

Capital is owned by being administered

 

Only by the ownership and administration of capital are any consumers’ goods brought forth.

 

The democracy of exchange, of the market, automatically distributes consumers’ goods among all parties and capital goods among administrators.

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There are two kinds of democracy

 

Group relationship with reference to administration of property under community of ownership and to Redistribution of property under diversity of ownership

 

Business organization and administration

 

Marketing of products and services.

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     No democracy in public affairs while government continues to control and repress and not to emancipate and serve

 

     Not until government conducts its business and gives its services upon an exchange basis the same as all private services are performed and exchanged.

 

     How can government become democratic by giving by free exchange and without coercion.

 

     Reducing taxation and thereby weakening the democratic (?) warfare that government by pressure groups and malignant moralists are waging against the employment of labor and capital and the production of wealth and services.

 

     This alone and nothing else will make private solvency possible and without this there can be no public solvency.

 

     Second – By taking thought and seeking out what provision the framework of society affords for social-izing and civilizing its government into an exchange relationship with its citizens.