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Excerpt from What Syndicalism Means: An Examination of the Origin and Motives of the Movement With an Analysis of Its Proposals for the Control of Industry
What are we to think of such a policy and such a programme? To those who are satisfied with the present state of Society, or who regard the existing organisation of industry as unalterable, any refutation of Syndicalism will seem super ?uous. To such persons its spirit, its methods and its ideals will seem a monument of unreason, if not of wickedness. But we should err gravely if we assumed that'to the mass of the wage-earners in Great Britain, as in France, it presents itself in any such light. We ourselves regard Syndi calism as a very natural and, we must concede, very pardonable reaction from the intolerable social conditions of to-day, and from the quite in excusable neglect of Cabinets and Parliaments to deal with these evils. But whilst we think that the Syndicalist agitation supplies a useful corree tive, and brings into prominence working-class feelings that we are too prone to ignore, we regard the Syndicalist proposals, not only as ethically ob jectionable, but also as fundamentally impracti ables.
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