A local daily publishes some of President Taft’s “ Views on Socialism ’ ’:— 4 * That form of Socialism popularly known as ‘ State Socialism,’ which would transfer to the Government the conduct of industrial enterprises, must he doomed to failure.”
Exactly, Taft ! We agree with you. It is the workers in the industries who run the industries now; it will be the workers who will do so in the future. What we are after is ownership of the industries by the people who work them. We can get this by organising for that purpose, industrially.
Capitalists are not string enough to chain the bodies of their wage workers, blit they are shrewd enough to enslave their minds. Moral codes are used to make them act as their masters desire.”
We do not object to the capitalist because he is a capitalist. The dog does not object to the flea because he is a flea, but to the way in which he gets his living,
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Industrial Unionist, Volume 1, Issue 2, 1 March 1913, Page 4
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