The vital issue of our day is a planned economy as opposed to anarchy, Dr. Mordecai M. Kaplan declared at a seminar on social justice conducted on Monday at the Jewish Theological Seminary where he is Professor of Homiletics and dean of Teacher’s Institute.
According to Dr. Kaplan there is a greater conflict today between religion that accepts the present competitive order and the social idealism that condemns it than between religion and science.
“It is part of our task to socialize the interests and enlarge the perspective of our people,” he declared. “This effort should be correlated with whatever inspiration or guidance may be derived from the experience and heritage of our people.
“The vital issue for our day is a planned economy versus anarchy. A planned economy means one organized with deliberate purpose of furthering the common good instead of expecting it to be realized either by each one aiming at his own good or deciding what constitutes the common good and how best to further it.”
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