The Green Book: Part Two

Chapter Two

              NEED


  Man's freedom is lacking if some-          |A person in
body else controls what he needs. For        |need is a
need may result in man's enslavement         |slave indeed
of man.  Need causes exploitation.

Need is an intrinsic problem and con-
flict grows out of the domination of
man's needs.
  The house is a basic need of both the      |Masters in
individual and the family. Therefore, it     |their own
should not be owned by others. There is      |castles
no freedom for a man who lives in
another's house, whether he pays rent
or not. All attempts made by various
countries to solve the problem of hous-
ing are not solutions at all. The reason
is that those attempts do not aim at the
radical and ultimate solution of man,
which is the necessity of his owning his
own house. The attempts have concen-
trated on the reduction or increase of
rent and its standardization, whether
at public or private expense. In the
socialist society no one, including the
society itself, is allowed to have control
over man's need.

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  No one has the right to build a house,
additional to his own and that of his
heirs, for the purpose of renting it,
because the house represents another
person's need, and building it for the
purpose of rent is an attempt to have        |In need

control over the need of that man and        |freedom
'In Need Freedom is Latent'.                 |indeed
  The income is an imperative need for
man. Thus the income of any man in
the society should not be a wage from
any source or a charity from anyone.
For there are no wage-workers in the
socialist society, only partners. Your
income is a form of private ownership.
You manage it by yourself either to
meet your needs or to share in the
production, where you are one of its
main factors. Your share will not be
used as a wage paid for any person in
return for production.
  The vehicle is a necessity both to the
individual and the family. Your vehicle
should not be owned by others. In the
socialist society no man or any other
authority can possess private vehicles
for the purpose of hiring them out, for
this is domination of the needs of
others.

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