Is not Technocracy very similar to Socialism or Communism?
No, it is not — mainly because it proceeds from entirely different premises than either socialism or communism. Technocracy originated out of a circumstance of technologically-produced disemployment. Research indicated that increasing technological disemployment would render impossible the distribution of sufficient consuming power in salaries and wages to buy back the products of increasingly efficient machines. The social program of Technocracy therefore, is one specifically designed to distribute an optimum of goods and services to all citizens. (The resulting disemployment by technology mentioned above is on the lips of nearly everyone in North America today.) Socialism and Communism, by contrast, were out-growths of an environment in which practically all work was done by human muscle-power, and wherein it was never possible to produce sufficient goods and services for all citizens. Karl Marx’s theories were formulated to overcome conditions as they existed in Europe in the middl
