30 THE SCIENCE OF POWER 



ism developed in the next stage it brought into 

 clear view the ultimate features of this position. 



In syndicalism the controlling factors in the great 

 class war of civilization were defined with firm grasp 

 in the programme set out in 1912 in the leading 

 organ of the movement in England. The demand 

 for the nationalization of industry so prominently 

 displayed in all the earlier pronouncements of 

 socialism was, in that programme, shifted definitely 

 into the background. Syndicalism, it was asserted, 

 had ceased to put its trust in the State. Labour 

 was fighting for its own cause. For syndicalists, 

 it was said, had come to foresee a condition in the 

 future in which the power of the State would be 

 inferior to the power of organized capital, and in 

 which the power of the State under the control of 

 the capitalist would be turned against the workers 

 in an industry that had become nationalized. The 

 universal strike, therefore, to be thoroughly effective 

 in the future must be directed, it was asserted, 

 not simply at curtailing profits. It must aim to 

 become a menace to the community itself through the 

 stoppage of supplies. 



We have to observe, in short, the labour move- 

 ment in the West hi this phase becoming at last 

 consciously instinct with the principles of universal 

 war resting ultimately on each side on the armed 



