• J A.B.C. OF ANARCHISM industry and agricultur_e, aided by modem scientific methods of organisation and production, will go a long way toward helping to solve the problems of supply. • Capitalist production is for .profit; more labour is used to-day '8 sell things than to produce them. The social revolution re-organises the industries on the basis of tho needs of the populace. Essential needs come first, naturally. Food, clothing, shelter-these are the primal requirements of man. The first step in this direction is the ascertaining of the available supply of provisions and other commodities. The labour associations in every city and community take this work in hand for the purpose of equitable distribution. Workers' committees in every street and district assume charge, co-operating with similar committees in the city and State, and f~derating their efforts throughout the country by means of general councils of producers. and consumers. Great events and upheavals bring to the fore the most active and ener~etic elements. The ·social revolution will crystalise the classconscious labour ranks. By whatever name tI:iey will be knownas industrial unions, revolutionary syndicalist bodies, co-operative associations, leagues of producers and .consumers--t.hey will represent the most enlightened and advanced part of labour, the organised workers aware of their' aims and how to attain them. It is they who will be th~ moving ·spirit of 'the revolution. With the aid of industrial machinery and by scientific cultivation of the land freed from monopoly, the revolution must first of all supply the elemental wants of society: In farming and gardening intensive cultivation and modern methods, have made us practically independent of natural soil quality and climate. To. a very con• siderable extent man now makes his own soil and his own climate, thanks to the achievements of chemistry. Exotic fruits can be raised in the north to be supplied to the warm south, as is being done in France. Science is the wizard who enables man to master all difficulties and overcome ali ·obstacles. The future, liberated from the incubus of the profit system and enriched by the work of the millions of non-producers of to-day, holds the greatest welfare for society. That future must be the objective point of the social revolution; its motto: bread and well-being .for all. First bread, then well-being and luxury. Even luxury, for luxury is a deepfelt need of man, a need of his physical as of his spiritual being. Intense application to this purpose must be the continuous effort of the revolution : not something to be postponed for a distant day but of immediate practice. . The revolution must strive to enable every community to sustain itself, to become materially 92 B1bllotecaGino Bia11co
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