We shall never get a chance of building socialism unless we carry with us in the process the consent of the ordinary man. And he, very naturally, tak… - G. D. H. Cole

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.

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.

Economy à la Sir George May will not help much; for it means nothing positive. ... We need, if not a Five Years Plan, at any rate a centrally controlled attempt to readjust industry and agriculture to the changing needs of the British consumer and of the world market, with less exclusive concentration on the old staple industries and far more attention to the development of those which have a real capacity for expansion.