Adolf A. Berle Quote

We live in a system described in obsolete terms. We have come to believe our own repeated declarations that our society is based on individual initiative – whereas, in fact, most of it is no more individual than an infantry division. We assume that our economic system is based on private property. Yet most industrial property is is no more private than a seat in a subway train, and indeed it is questionable whether much of it can be called property at all. We indignantly deny that we are collectivist, yet it is demonstrable that more than two-thirds of our enterprise is possible only because it is collectivist: what is really meant is that the State did not do the collectivizing.

p. 27; Cited in asociologist.com, 2009/12/07. - Power Without Property, 1959