Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2793

A typed paragraph revised in pencil by Heath and then crossed out as if it had been used someplace. Also on the reverse side a penciling by Spencer MacCallum either capturing or recalling words by Heath on democracy.

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Efficiently and democratically organized (each member voting in proportion to his contribution), under a public trusteeship of their own creation, they will administer the largest and most important business of all — the public business — in their own communities, and ultimately, through voluntary interrelations with solvent and self-sustaining service organizations in other communities, become members of the – – –

A new definition of the word “democracy,” having your individuality in a business organization by retaining control of what you put into it. Everybody alike is a false conception of democracy; it won’t work. — Everybody according to his contribution.