Excerpt from These Present Discontents, and the Labour Party and Social Credit
The orthodox, or rather Majority, Guild Socialists, for example, explain that the nationalisation which the miners want is something quite different from that which Mr. Sidney Webb and the Fabian Society want, and are concerned very largely to assure their followers that, under Guildism, there will be no bureaucracy, or, at any rate, there will be quite a new kind of bureaucrat, warranted free from any of the old-world characteristics on which many people hold strong opinions. And there is Bolshevism.
But it is a curious fact that almost the only feature that these prescriptions for the disease of the body politic have in common is that they are all more or less dovel systems of administration, i. e., they assume that a new mechanism is required. It is quite true that they are uniformly introduced to our attention by moral and metaphysical arguments of an exalted nature, but the concrete embodiment of these sentiments seems to suggest that the whole problem is to design a social structure which will still more effectually subordinate mankind to it, rather than that he might be enabled progressively to conquer the machine which now enslaves him.
Before breaking up the wonderful machine of civilisation and industry as we know it, therefore, it is well to remember that there is prima facie evidence that, considered simply as a machine, it is deserving of a high degree of respect. By its aid all the wonderful achievements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have materialised, nor can the misuse which has been made of some of them be laid to its discredit.
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