12However, there is a much more serious difficulty than the local and temporary objections which I discussed in the last chapter. Faced by the fact that intelligent people are so often on the other side, the Socialist is apt to set it down to corrupt motives (conscious or unconscious), or to an ignorant belief that Socialism would not ’work’, or to a mere dread of the horrors and discomforts of the revolutionary period before Socialism is established. Undoubtedly all these are important, but there are plenty of people who are influenced by none of them and are nevertheless hostile to Socialism. Their reason for recoiling from Socialism is spiritual, or ’ideological’. They object to it not on the ground that it would not ’work’, but precisely because it would ’work’ too well. What they are
