Its real evil lies far deeper and is
quiteuneradicable. It all depends on the architectural tradition of the
period.
But it derives its peculiar power from the factthat
it means three separate things. And in the early days of the revolution the Spanish
workersunderstood the issue very well.
But Imet with nothing of the kind, and least of all
among the miners.
Take for instance the different attitude towards
the family. Certainly, it is not the same forthem as it would be for you or
me.
But is it ever possible to be really intimate with
the working class?
I do not believe that there is anything inherently
and unavoidablyugly about industrialism.
I may or may not carry with itmeaning No. This is
not intended to bring thecoal out, only to loosen it. Skip forward two hundred
yearsinto the Utopian future, and the scene is totally different.
Here you have an interesting example of the
Northern cult. The smug and silver Trent, Shakespeare says; and the South-erthe
smugger, I say.
Its real evil lies far deeper and is
quiteuneradicable. A Fascist spyprobably WOULD disguise himself as a
revolutionary.
The liberalbourgeois is genuinely liberal up to the
point where his own interestsstop. It seemed to me dreadful that the doom of a job
shoulddescend upon anyone at fourteen. A slag-heap is at best a hideous thing,
because it is so planless andfunctionless.
But is it ever possible to be really intimate with
the working class?