The Socialist Myth This is the month of Summer Schools.
At Cambridge the Liberals, ancient and modern, are licking their sores, but as yet there is not much sign that the healing process has started. Of particular interest this year is the I.L.P. Summer School at WelWyn, which was addressed by Mr. Bernard Shaw, Mr. E. D. Simon, and Mr. James Maxton among others. Mr. Shaw was in fine form. His remarks should have dispelled many of the illusions which still persist in British politics. It was high time that our Left politicians should he told, by one of their party, that " revolutionaries are not working-class, and the working-class not revolutionary." What is still more significant is that Mr. Maxton, at a later Meeting, gave his opinion that there were in this country only 30,000 avowed Socialists who were prepared to work for the Socialist Commonwealth. He admitted also that " a large number of people who voted Labour at the last election were not prepared to accept the Socialist view of life." It is interesting to compare this with our remark, a fortnight after the election, on the strength of the purely " progressive " vote in the country, and our statement that "the workers, . . . , voted solidly for ' their own people,' and were not interested in any high-falutin' Socialist dogma."
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