ABSTRACT
Tom Mann is incompetent to grapple with Capital in behalf of Labour as any great labour leader would have to do, because he has his facts wrong about Capital, is simple-minded and rudimentary and undiscriminating about the men with whom he deals, and sees them all alike. The second reason that Tom Mann is incompetent is, that he has his facts wrong and does think, but that he carries thinking about the employing class still further, has come to make a kind of religion out of not thinking about them. The third reason that Tom Mann is incompetent is that he is unpractical and full of scorn. And scorn, from the point of view of the practical-minded man, is a sentimental, useless emotion. The fourth reason that Tom Mann as a labour leader is incompetent is that he is afraid; he is afraid of capital, so afraid that he has to fight it instead of grappling with it and co-operating.
