A Criticism of the Theory of Trades' Unions

There were the Syndicalists, with their blueprints for a stateless society organized as a federation of productive groups under the aus]pices of the trade unions. In America, Arthur Mor]gan and Baker Brownell have set forth the theory and described the practice of a new kind of community living on the village and small-town level. Professor Skinner of Harvard has set forth a psy]chologist's view of the problem in his Walden Two, a Utopian novel about a self-sustaining and autono]mous community, so scientifically organized that no]body is ever led into anti-social temptation and, with]out resort to coercion or undesirable propaganda, everyone does what he or she ought to do, and every]one is happy and creative. In France, during and after the Second World War, Marcel Barbu and his fol]lowers set up a number of self-governing, non-hierar]chical communities of production, which were also com]munities for mutual aid and full human living. And meanwhile, in London, the Peckham Experiment has demonstrated that it is possible, by co-ordinating health services with the wider interests of the group, to create a true community even in a metropolis ...»