Functional socialism

96 FUNCTIONAL SOCIALISM

business even to exist. Bond Street may go; or it may be extended to every shopping centre in the country.

Confronted with problems such as these, “business brains” would wilt and shrivel. Obviously a new type of administrator must be called to authority. He will have no interests to serve save only those of his function, to which he will be as faithful as a priest to his church, a soldier to his army, a policeman to his force. He will represent a unity and not a duality. He will be one of a fellowship, chosen by his fellowship, and recalled, if needs must, by the same fellowship. His salary will be reasonable, but not so large as socially to separate him from his colleagues. In addition to an expert knowledge of his work, he must know how to deal with his fellows. He will have responsibility, but he must know how to behave in conference. Not only in conference with his immediate colleagues but with his opposite numbers in a dozen other functional groups. He will establish his position, not by domineering, not by discreet co-operation with the ranks higher up, but by a wise understanding of the possibilities of functional organization.