(Ebook) Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century by Alaister Reid (editor); Peter Ackers (editor) ISBN 9783319341620, 3319341626

(Ebook) Alternatives to State-Socialism in Britain Other Worlds of Labour in the Twentieth Century by Alaister Reid (editor); Peter Ackers (editor) ISBN 9783319341620, 3319341626

From the foreword:No one whose intellectual parts are in working order believes that the industrial world will go back to an unorganized individualistic production and distribution of wealth. No one whose moral sense is awake desires to see the chief means of production owned and controlled by a small number of monstrously wealthy men, however great their ability or good their intentions. Nevertheless, most persons of moral sense and normal mentality are disturbed when one suggests in so many words that if industry cannot henceforth be individualistic and should not be owned and controlled by the Big Few, it will, apparently, have to be owned and controlled by the Many. This paradoxical psychology possibly indicates that we queer human beings do our real thinking and perform our occasional feats of moral self-examination in lucid intervals, alternating with states of mind —and conscience— which were better not described in non-technical language.