God Arises
Religion and Society
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the public sector, despite the advantages, which the
latter enjoys under the patronage of the communist
state. Even Russian leaders, faced with the reality
that the state alone simply cannot meet the nation’s
needs, have admitted the importance of the private
sector. State planning chief Nikoli Baibakov told the
latest session of Soviet parliament: “Economic
leaders should devote more attention to giving help
to collective farm workers in managing their private
plots.”
Thus communism had done a complete U-turn
since the days of Stalin when complete
collectivization was considered the ideal. Now there
is a grudging acceptance of the inevitability of
private enterprise, and the need to assist it. It is not
very difficult to see why the system of private
enterprise should be so resilient in face of
encroachment by the state. It is because private
enterprise is not a man-made system; it is an
integral part of human nature, and efforts to change
human nature are doomed to failure.
It had thus emerged that while excessive individual
liberty could
be
detrimental to society,
