Digest

The prophecy of Marx that capitalism would soon be replaced by communism has failed.
That is, capitalism has developed to the extent that the class struggle between the people who have the means of production and the people who do not has been superceded.

However, capitalism has a new class struggle arising within itself -- the struggle between people who have high-tech knowledge and people who don't. Such knowledge has become indispensable in modern capitalist society.

This is causing a big income difference between a small number of rich people (the high technology elite) and the large number of poorer people in the United States today. The resulting shrinkage of the middle class has become an important political problem. And one organization has come into the spotlight -- the NPO.

The NPO has received attention as an effective agency which absorbs the large amount of unemployed people who are laid off from various industrial enterprises. The NPO absorbs the unemployed and offers the possibility of a new enterprise.

RiffKin, Drucker, and Saramon have big expectations for the NPO as a human method for overcoming employment problems in place of the cold and mechanical methods used by the national government, industrial enterprises, and labor unions in the past.

Moreover, the NPO has an important partner which surpasses the function ofthe conventional and traditional organizations of the past.