1918) should also be read, as well as various pamphlets published by the National Guilds League. The attitude of the Syndicalists to Guild Socialism is far from sympathetic. An article in "The Syndicalist" for February, 1914, speaks of it in the following terms: a Middle-class of the middle-class, with all the shortcomings (we had almost said stupidities') of the middle- classes writ large across it,Guild Socialism' stands forth as the latest lucubration of the middle-class mind. It is a cool steal' of the leading ideas of Syndicalism and a deliberate perversion of them. . . . We do protest against theState' idea . . . in Guild Socialism. Middle-class people, even when they become Socialists, cannot get rid of the idea that the working-class is their inferior'; that the workers need to beeducated,' drilled, disciplined, and generally nursed for a very long time before they will be able to walk by themselves. The very reverse is actually the truth. . . . It is just the plain truth when we say that the ordinary wage-worker, of average intelligence, is better capable of taking care of himself than the half-educated middle-class man who wants to advise him. He knows how to make the wheels of the world go round."]
37 (return) [ "The Guild Idea," No. 2 of the Pamphlets of the National Guilds League, p. 17.]
38 (return) [ Kropotkin, "Fields, Factories and Workshops," p. 74.]
39 (return) [ Ib. p. 81.]
40 (return) [ Kropotkin, "Field, Factories, and Workshops," p. 6.]
41 (return) [ "Notwithstanding the egotistic turn given to the public mind by the merchant-production of our century, the Communist tendency is continually reasserting itself and trying to make its way into public life. The penny bridge disappears before the public bridge; and the turnpike road before the free road. The same spirit pervades