Summing Up.

Summing up, I would say it appears that if the creative spirit innovates necessarily, it must press forward, destroying the old and setting the new in its place. As Von Mises says, if it were relieved of this burden it would cease to be a pioneer. Cultural advance, then, would be more assured, under Capitalism rather than Socialism, but this by no means says that the status quo is as good as it could be nor that a Socialist state with a few intelligent modifications could not conceivably offer far more to the artist, and thus, in time, to Culture generally.