The Qur’an An Abiding Wonder
Qur’an: The Voice of God
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concluded that what lay at the root of these
disparities was the present system of ownership
which caused articles to be produced, not for their
utility to the producer, but for the profit they would
yield when sold to others. This permitted the
privileged few to behave as plunderers, heaping up
profits and increasing their own property to the
detriment of their fellow men. The remedy
proposed by Marx was to abolish ownership rights
altogether, and to transfer the means of
accumulating wealth to the public sector. The
government was then to be entrusted with the
organization of a public system of creation and
distribution of wealth which should serve the
interests of all.
At that particular point in time, it was those who
possessed the necessary capital who were in a
position to profiteer. The question now arose as to
the actual advantage of having the government take
complete control of these funds in order to turn
them into a public treasury. Would not this new
group of people – the members of government – be
tempted, as individuals, to do the same as their
capitalist predecessors, considering that they would
