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A society that acquiesces in the presence in its midst of a vast permanent army of unemployed is a society that has ceased to believe in itself.

— G. D. H. Cole The Next Ten Years in Economic and Social Policy (1929)

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Gradualism, in this sense, however much it appeals to the first thoughts of the electorate, fails because in the event it is unable to deliver the goods. It may put a Labour Government into office; but it will also ensure its subsequent discredit.

Some Essentials of Socialist Propaganda: A Tract For the Times (1932)

I became a Socialist, as many others did in those days, on grounds of morals and decency and aesthetic sensibility. I wanted to do the decent thing by my fellow-men. I could not see why every human being should not have as good a chance in life as I, and I hated the ugliness both of poverty and of the money-grubbing way of life that I saw around me.

In any socialised enterprise, no matter what its form, socialisation requires that proper provision be made for the democratic participation of the workers in determining the conditions and allocation of work, both at the work place level and at the higher levels of management and control.

Capitalism in the Modern World (1956)

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