Excerpt from The Plan of Laughing Land: A Money Back Book
This is a money back book, therefore I am saved the task of making any apologies, even were I so inclined. I have written this book under protest, for I have waited in vain twenty years for some author to write it. So I concluded to write it myself, and here it is. Dr. Johnson said that it was possible to be a fool in several languages, and that encourages me to say to those critics that will spend their valuable time in searching out the literary defects in this book that they have my entire sympathy, and I hope that their labors will be fittingly rewarded. I have not aimed so much to produce a book of literary perfection as I have to present an idea - in fact, two ideas.
The first is to show on what an idiotic plan, or, rather, lack of plan, the present order of society is based. Its inevitable and impending downfall. The second is to convey to the mind of the reader an idea of the new order that will be established on the ruins of the old.
I maintain that it is unthinkable to imagine a new order based on right and justice, without it being based on scientific principles, and if so it will have to conform generally to the Plan of Laughing Land.
Preface to the Second Edition of "The Plan of Laughing Land".
Since the publication of the first edition of this little work in 1906 tremendous changes have taken place in this old world of ours and every change has tended to place the science of political economy in its rightful place as the most important in the family of sciences. The so-called civilized nations of the world are reaping the "Harvest of Dragons Teeth" that they have so freely sown in their vain endeavor to maintain the profit or capitalist system of society. It is with great satisfaction that we point to Russia where 175,000,000 have broken their bonds of slavery and now are well on the way towards a "Cooperative Commonwealth", and in the building of this great work they are compelled to follow the dictates of the supreme economic law "Cooperation" and in doing so cannot depart in the slightest degree from The "Plan of Laughing Land". The invincible law of "Economic Determinism" will be served and will compel every nation on earth to follow where they lead.
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