Freeman march 14 banner   Ownership and Freedom   Dr. Russell is
Director of the Graduate Pro­gram in Management, Dominican
College, Racine, Wisconsin.  Freedom is based on ownership. If
it is possible for a person to own land and machines and
build­ings, it is also possible for him to have freedom of
press, speech, and religion. But if it is impossible for a
person to buy and sell land and other resources, then it is also
impossible for him to have peace­ful access to any effective
means of disagreeing with the decisions of his government. Thus
my con­tention is that, in the final analy­sis, human freedom
stands or falls with the market economy of pri­vate ownership of
the means of production and distribution.  True enough, freedom
may be temporarily suppressed to some considerable extent by
various forms of censorship under a sys­tem of private property;
but, at least, there is still discussion about it (and even
objection to it) in the privately owned newspapers. In contrast,
my thesis is that the issue of