ABSTRACT
Passing on to consider ways and means of emancipating the producer and consumer from their enslavement by the middleman, two possible and complementary lines of action present themselves. One is to attack the problem from the position of the producer, the other is to attack it from that of the consumer. Instead of choosing their own ground and fighting for the maintenance of a standard in production, where they would be tactically strong, they have allowed the employers to fight them on economic grounds, where they are the weaker. To strike for quality would indeed hit the employers in a very tender place. In the affirmation of this truth is to be found the most fundamental divergence from Collectivist opinion. Collectivists always talk as if the social problem was entirely a matter of detailed arrangement. They seem to be quite unconscious of the fact that in society there is a constant struggle between right and wrong.
