War is the greatest of all agents ofchange. But we
have moved withglacier-like slowness, and we have learned only from disasters. In
such circumstances even propaganda becomesalmost impossible. Manifestly it is a time
to stiffen morale. The other Marxist parties were of even lessimportance. It is
astonishing how this illusion failsto die. It is only by revolution that the native
genius of the English people canbe set free.
Formation of an Imperial General Council, in which
the colouredpeoples are to be represented.
It iswhen a peace-offer along THOSE lines is made
that the pro-Fascists willraise their voices. Thewar has speeded it up, but it has
also increased, and desperately, thenecessity for speed. Declaration of formal
alliance with China, Abyssinia and all othervictims of the Fascist powers. Every day
there are tiny defeats, tinyvictories. Revolution does not mean red flags and street
fighting, itmeans a fundamental shift of power.
No political programme is ever carried out inits
entirety.
Therefore, as againstgenuine Socialism, the moneyed
class have always been on his side. Is it impossibly hopeful to think that such a
policy as this could get afollowing in England?
Our real forces,physical, moral or intellectual,
cannot be mobilised.
There will always be anomalies and evasions. In
England there is only one Socialist party that has ever seriouslymattered, the
Labour Party. Reform of the educational system along democratic lines.
Quite soon it will be possible to say definitely
that our feetare set upon one path or the other. In theEnglish-speaking countries
they never had a serious footing. Whether it happens with or withoutbloodshed is
largely an accident of time and place. And they WILL suffer them, almost
indefinitely, providedthat they know what they are fighting for.
Thelady in the Rolls-Royce car is more damaging to
morale than a fleet ofGoerings bombing planes. But it cannot arisewhen we have once
introduced a reasonable degree of social justice.
It is not primarily a question of change of
government.
Like theFrench Communists, they might become the
half-conscious agents ofmillionaires.