Is Money Omnipotent!

Is Money Omnipotent!...
I never think it can be.

I would like to dwell here upon another aspect of shaping man's requirements. Socialists society which aims to raise the living standard and advance the well-being of its members rejects worship of things and money as a matter of principle.

For it is precisely this worship that engenders egoism, philistine narrow-mindedness, and turns people into slaves of things, impoverishing them spiritually. In contrast to be " consumer society" idea propounded so loudly by bourgeois ideologists, socialism opposes all and sundry attempts at given a lopsided, limited and impoverished interpretation of well-being, that deforms the individual spiritually.

Some people do not notice that their acquisitiveness shuts them off from all good things of life. They do not go the theatre or to the cinema ( why should they if there is a television in the room).

They do not invite guests; instead they pile up new things. But there is nothinh more gratifying and rewarding than personal contact and good intelligent company.

Sometimes parents having failed to introduce their small children to the world of moral value later try to " repay" them with things. Instead of telling them fairy tale they simply switch on the television, instead of taken them for a work they gave them "pocket" money.

Our readers draw attention to the danger of such a" lifestyle". To quote from a letter.

" I am long past 18" writes a teacher, " and do not consider myself young. I am worried that some young people attache too much importance to money. They think that if a
person has money he has everything and he is ' modern'.

But what about happiness, respect of comrade, love? Can money buy all this? Or, perhaps, a modern man can live without these things?"

If one achieves his material well-being by his own labour it is good. And hardly will anyone question the necessity of comfort.

The problem is whether or one's personal plans and interests collide with social interests and moral standards of socialist society.

Under capitalism a person's social value is determined by the amount of money he has and not by real worth. In socialist society there different values.

The yardstick is the benefit which every member of society brings to his people..

Written by:
ibenze moses