In any socialised enterprise, no matter what its form, socialisation requires that proper provision be made for the democratic participation of the w… - G. D. H. Cole

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.

I became a Socialist, as many others did in those days, on grounds of morals and decency and aesthetic sensibility. I wanted to do the decent thing by my fellow-men. I could not see why every human being should not have as good a chance in life as I, and I hated the ugliness both of poverty and of the money-grubbing way of life that I saw around me.

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.