The Tuba Doctrines Part 2

Significance of the Doctrines

Tuba, Etele, and Uda (2005) record The Tuba Doctrines in a book titled The Third Resource: A Universal Ideology of Economics.  The U.S. government should be aware of these doctrines as powerful ideological tools on the international scene.  They may be stated in a number of different ways and geared to the current level of communist indoctrination at a given region of the world.

By and large, the American people are immune to this indoctrination.  They are hardly aware of its existence and even less aware of the need to gain the minds of the 6.9 billion people of the world.  That, however, is the most crucial issue.  Most Americans are unaware of the real ideological differences between communism and capitalism.  They should understand these competing ideologies and their fallacies.

Communist propaganda is successful among some have-nots and idealist intellectuals because it promises the Utopia of a classless society or “a society where everyone works according to his own ability and is rewarded according to his achievements.”  However, as an ultimate goal, it also promises communism, i.e., “a society where everyone works according to his ability and is rewarded according to his needs.”

Does the first definition fit the American or the Soviet system better?  Does the second one fit any system at all?  Why not let the world know about this?  Which of these countries of systems is ahead in satisfying the needs of its citizens?  Who possesses the best resources and environment for generating new wealth?

Americans are often criticized—and perhaps with some justification—of wanting to quantify things in terms of money.  Okay, fair enough.  Yet, it’s tough to deny that in this well-governed society, the universal opulence has done a passably good job of extending itself to the lowest ranks of the people.  Even the poorest Americans have electricity and clean, safe running water.  That alone puts them in a relatively posh club, compared to the vast numbers who refuse to take up this philosophy.  Almost all have telephones, and televisions.  The number one health problem among Adam Smith’s poor is that they eat too much.

William A. Whittle (2003)

Comments and Elaborations

Examples of natural resources are land, rivers and streams, oceans, fish, fowl, plants, animals, trees, minerals, iron ore, crude oil, natural gas, wind, and sunlight.  Human resources are constituted by the people themselves who are able to carry out useful activities in their own and in society’s behalf.

Human-generated resources are the new capabilities, knowledge, materials, supplies, tools, instruments, equipment, machinery, and techniques developed by human beings to make their lives easier and better.  These resources are used in various fields of human endeavor, e.g., fishing, ranching, mining, banking, and lathe operating.  These resources include skills learned and passed on to others.  The most crucial and important of these is called technology.

Some people became rich because they acquired land and hired others to work for them.  Others became rich because they found and mined gold or diamond.  Still, others were enriched by making and selling steel using labor, know-how, iron ore, and coke.

Finally, some people became rich because they exploited all available natural, human, and human-generated resources.  The morality of these self-enriched people may be questioned.  However, those who produced value were those who added to human progress.  Much of this human progress may never have occurred without them.

Regardless of personal success, all will eventually die, and all personal possessions will go to their inheritors.  Therefore, the most important question for the future is this: How will these remaining possessions be used for the individual and common good of man?

The excesses of an individual member should not characterize a social or economic system.  Everything is part of an evolutionary process.  The rate of creating new wealth-generating techniques is the dominant issue.  Maximizing the generating rate of new wealth also maximizes the rate of fairer wealth-distribution by increasing the number of wealth-generating centers in the world.  The more we distribute the means of generating wealth, the more we disseminate newly generated wealth itself.

Simply stated, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and their followers held the position that all wealth was generated by labor alone.  In their view, all natural resources belong to the people of the world by birthright.  They argued that the workers, i.e., the proletariat, have the primary voice in how to distribute and use the newly created wealth.

Since, in their view, the proletariat was deprived of this right, they must take all power into their own hands.  They did this in 1917 during the Bolshevik Revolution, which resulted in the birth of the Soviet Union or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).  Lenin’s heirs still profess the same goals today as they did over nine decades ago, and they still export the same outdated ideology to the rest of the world.

Unfortunately, too many educated and uneducated people in the world today still buy into this ideology.  Even more unfortunate is the fact that many history and political science professors at America’s elite and less-than-elite universities also subscribe to this ideology.  They are actively engaged in trying to indoctrinate the new generations with it.

If Marx, Engels, or Lenin were alive today, in all likelihood, they would no longer preach slogans such as “Proletarians of the world unite, for you are the wealth-generators of the world; therefore, you should take power into your hands.”  Instead, they would probably shout, “Engineers, scientists, technologists – unite, for you are the generators, possessors, and implementers of the new resource of technology, which will be responsible for generating most of the new wealth of the world.  Unite and take power into your own hands.”  Thank God, they are dead.  Were they alive, they could create a new nightmare for the world.

Technology affects everyone, every day.  Fishing, farming, ranching, mining, manufacturing, office work, education, food service, leisure time—anything and everything in our lives—are affected by technology.  This is just the beginning.

The International Technology Institute (ITI) had established a worldwide, universal honor system known as the “Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science, and Technology (HOFEST).”  We hope that the governments of the world will adopt this system as the most appropriate one to acknowledge the merits of these generators of new wealth.

The role of capital as a resource has been debated extensively.  This issue actually divided the world into two camps.  “Capital” has many definitions including the following:

• Wealth in the form of money or property, owned, used, or accumulated in business by an individual, partnership, or corporation.
• Any form of material wealth used or available for use in the production of more wealth.

It is obvious that capitalism, i.e., a free market economy, has provided far more to its citizens than did the Marxist-Leninist system to the Russians.  The Russians were unsuccessful in selling their ideology to the world, even thought they had experienced a modicum of success prior to the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1991.  The United States had to bail them out continuously in feeding the Russian population.

They were able to sell to the world the idea that the United States is successful simply because it exploits everyone’s natural resources and cheap labor, i.e., human resource, and uses these for its own benefit.  At the same time, however, the Russians remain silent on what the nations of the world are getting in return for their natural resources and inexpensive labor.  They gain access to capital as a strategic resource as well as to all of the new wealth-generating resource—technology—and do so virtually free-of-charge.

Generally, after using these resources, the standard of living (SOL) and quality of life (QOL) have increased everywhere.  This change was also accompanied by temporary and localized abuses caused by the excessive greed of a few, but that does not diminish the overwhelming progress achieved.  In reality, strategic capital became a human-generated resource, allowing wealth generated in one area of successful human endeavor to be invested to generate and initiate opportunities in other areas.  Capitalists must invest their strategic capital in new ventures; otherwise, they stagnate and so does the world.

What it really boils down to is that not even Mr. Bill Gates can eat more steaks and use many more pairs of pants than most of us.  As such, he must use his possessions in other ways, namely, by investing them to generate more, new wealth.  Likewise, it matters not what the state owns, but it surely matters how it uses its possessions.  It has been demonstrated that state ownership or excessive government control hampers the generation of new wealth.  Instead of creating it, the state simply redistributes already existing wealth, and often it even consumes the wealth to be generated by future generations.

The United States should articulate its own successful ideology and sell it to the world.  It is an ideology based on maximizing the generation of wealth through the proper application of all natural, human, and human-generated resources … particularly technology.  Hence, the United States should claim its leading place in the world in using all available resources for the betterment of the lives of all the people of the world.

With its newly formulated theory on generating wealth based on the Tuba Doctrines, the United States should counter the phony ideology which claims that the proletariat is the only real generators of wealth.  Actually, nothing is new here except the United States has not applied these truths as an ideology.

Naturally, labor will always maintain its role as one of the important components in wealth generation.

The ITI was formed to act as an international organization to:

• Promote the idea that technology should be considered as a human-generated resource, which is the most significant factor in the creation of wealth for this world.
• Act as a conduit for technology transfer for the betterment of the human race.
• Create and promote the “Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science, and Technology” and thus encourage ESTs toward higher-and-higher performance on behalf of the entire human race.

We must teach the world to think and act rationally and invite the world to abide by the same rational rules that are both quantitatively and qualitatively measurable.

Dr. Istvan Stephen Tuba

References

Tuba, I. S., Etele, A., & Uda, R. T. (2005). The Third Resource: A Universal Ideology of Economics. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, Inc., ISBN 0-595-34450-X, 304 pages.

Whittle, W. A. (2003, April 27). “Victory,” an essay written by this ingenious author and posted on his website, which is located at http://www.ejectejecteject.com.  Mr. Whittle can be contacted by email at [email protected].

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