In this manner, psychologists tell us, neuroses
and inner compulsions are fostered. No true solution is possible, to
continue this analogy, until the worker is awakened to the realization
that the roots of his malady lie deep in his own nature, his own
organism, his own habits. To blame everything upon the capitalist and
the environment produced by capitalism is to focus attention upon merely
one of the elements of the problem. The Marxian too often forgets
that before there was a capitalist there was exercised the unlimited
reproductive activity of mankind, which produced the first overcrowding,
the first want. This goaded humanity into its industrial frenzy, into
warfare and theft and slavery. Capitalism has not created the lamentable
state of affairs in which the world now finds itself. It has grown
out of them, armed with the inevitable power to take advantage of our
swarming, spawning millions. As that valiant thinker Monsieur G. Hardy
has pointed out (6) the proletariat may be looked upon, not as the
antagonist of capitalism, but as its accomplice. Labor surplus, or
the "army of reserve" which as for decades and centuries furnished
the industrial background of human misery, which so invariably defeats
strikes and labor revolts, cannot honestly be blamed upon capitalism.
It is, as M. Hardy points out, of SEXUAL and proletarian origin. In
bringing too many children into the world, in adding to the total of
misery, in intensifying the evils of overcrowding, the proletariat
itself increases the burden of organized labor; even of the Socialist
and Syndicalist organizations themselves with a surplus of the docilely
inefficient, with those great uneducable and unorganizable masses.
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