The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolutionWells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Religion
The open conspiracy : $b Blue prints for a world revolution
Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Social problems; Sociology; Utopias
These economic groups, then, of the Open Conspiracy, which may come
indeed to be a large part of the Open Conspiracy, will be working in
that vast task of economic reconstruction--which from the point of
view of the older socialism was the sole task before mankind. They
will be conducting experiments and observing processes according to
their opportunities. Through _ad hoc_ societies and journals
they will be comparing and examining their methods and preparing
reports and clear information for the movement at large. The whole
question of money and monetary methods in our modern communities, so
extraordinarily disregarded in socialist literature, will be examined
under the assumption that money is the token of the community’s
obligation, direct or indirect, to an individual, and credit its
permission to deal freely with material.
The whole psychology of industry and industrial relationship needs
to be revised and restated in terms of the collective efficiency and
welfare of mankind. And just as far as can be contrived, the counsel
and the confidences of those who now direct great industrial and
financial operations will be invoked. The first special task of a
banker, or a bank clerk for that matter, who joins the Open Conspiracy,
will be to answer the questions: “What is a bank?” “What are you going
to do about it?” “What have we to do about it?” The first question
to a manufacturer will be: “What are you making and why?” and “What
are you and we to do about it?” Instead of the crude proposals to
“expropriate” and “take over by the state” of the primitive socialism,
the Open Conspiracy will build up an encyclopædic conception of the
modern economic complex as a labyrinthine pseudo-system progressively
eliminating waste and working its way along multitudinous channels
towards unity, towards clarity of purpose and method, towards abundant
productivity and efficient social service.
Let us come back now for a paragraph or so to the ordinary adherent
to the Open Conspiracy, the adherent considered not in relation to
his special aptitudes and services, but in relation to the movement
as a whole and to those special constructive organisations outside
his own field. It will be his duty to keep his mind in touch with the
progressing concepts of the scientific work so far as he is able and
with the larger issues of the economic reconstruction that is afoot, to
take his cues from the special groups and organisations engaged upon
that work, and to help where he finds his opportunity and when there
is a call upon him. But no adherent of the Open Conspiracy can remain
merely and completely an ordinary adherent. There can be no pawns in
the game of the Open Conspiracy, no “cannon fodder” in its war. A
special activity quite as much as a general understanding is demanded
from everyone who looks creatively towards the future of mankind.
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