This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...in the political world. The matter requires reconsideration. It is possible that even if the Labour Party is, or should be, the main centre of affairs, yet the Cooperative movement has played, is playing, and will increasingly play, a far more important part than has been formally recognised. Its activities ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...in the political world. The matter requires reconsideration. It is possible that even if the Labour Party is, or should be, the main centre of affairs, yet the Cooperative movement has played, is playing, and will increasingly play, a far more important part than has been formally recognised. Its activities are, indeed, much nearer the heart of things than the Labour theorists and the Labour politicians have understood. Co-operation has contributed several important, even vital, ideas to the Labour programme. Still better than ideas, it has contributed many substantial facts. For the sake of brevity they will be here expressed in tabulated form with the barest amount of explanation. There is a vast literature of its own on Co-operation; all that is here attempted is to show how it must be linked up with the general Labour movement. The chief contributions of Co-operation to the workers' cause are the following: --I. Co-operation has built up a vast organisation in industry and trade--both in the production of goods and in the distribution of them by retail sale--thereby teaching the workers that there is something else besides politics to be considered. This great fact is the heart of the Co-operative work. If the Labour party has concerned itself with the distribution of wealth, the Co-operators have set themselves the still more elementary duty of producing it as well as distributing it. They have realised that perhaps the best way of preventing the capitalists taking too much profit is for Labour to do its production itself. To a large extent the newer Guild movement is the development of that principle in a more scientific form. II. Co-operation has taught Labour that this work of production can be done without the aid of Capitalists; and that...
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