Tenth, and finally, monopoly threatens the existence of free private enterprise and representative government. In some fields monopolistic arrangements cannot be established or enforced without legal coercion. Here, competitors who do not wish to compete may call upon the State to impose restraints upon those who do. In an effort to escape the consequences of freedom, they may be willing to sacrifice freedom itself. The legislation which they seek, and frequently obtain, may fasten a straitjacket upon every firm in a trade. Monopoly in any field may so abuse its power that small producers, workers, and consumers will demand the enactment of regulatory laws. Private administration may then be subject to public supervision; management may be compelled to submit essential decisions to the approval of governmental agencies; the area of business freedom will be accordingly curtained. Concentration in economic power begets concentration in political power. The resulting order in business and in government must differ materially from that envisaged by the philosophers of liberalism. Indeed, it may be questioned whether democratic processes can survive the trend toward centralized economic control. Monopoly impairs democracy's ability to defend itself in time of war. National defense requires an expansion of output; monopoly seeks to augment its profit by restricting output and maintaining price. It thus obstructs the procurement of arms and supplies, increases the cost of defense, adds to the burden of debt and taxation, and undermines national morale. When the Nation is attacked, it may even turn the balance from victory to defeat. Monopoly threatens democracy, too, when its contribution to industrial paralysis, to unemployment, and to distributive inequality, induces those widespread attitudes of hopelessness and resentment that make ready converts for the propagandists of revolutionary change. In the words of the Federal Trade Commission, "The capitalist system of free initiative is not immortal, but is capable of dying and of dragging down with it the system of democratic government. Monopoly constitutes the death of capitalism and the genesis of authoritarian government.