The Strenuous Life of Sainthood 290 Superstition or Desiccation? 292 7. THE SYNDICALIST MOMENT: CLASS STRUGGLE AND WORKERS' CONTROL AS THE MORAL EQUIVALENT OF PROPRIETORSHIP AND WAR The Cult of "Mere Excitement" 296 James on Moral Equivalence 300 Sorel's Attack on Progress 304 The Case for "Pessimism" 308 War as Discipline against Resentment 310 The Sectarian Dilemma 312 Wage Slavery and the "Servile State": G. D. H. Cole and Guild Socialism 317 The Attempt to Reconcile Syndicalism with Collectivism 320 From Workers' Control to "Community": The Absorption of Guild Socialism by Social Democracy 324 8. WORK AND LOYALTY IN THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF THE "PROGRESSIVE" ERA Progressive and Social Democratic Criticism of American Syndicalism 329 Revolutionary Socialism versus Syndicalism: The Case of William English Walling 332 The IWW and the Intellectuals: Love at First Sight 336 Herbert Croly on "Industrial Self- Government" 340 Walter Weyl's Orthodox Progressivism: The Democracy of Consumers 342 Rival Perspectives on the Democratization of Culture 345 Van Wyck Brooks and the Search for a "Genial Middle Ground" 348 The Controversy about Immigration: Assimilation or Cultural Pluralism? 353 Royce's Philosophy of Loyalty 356 The Postwar Reaction against Progressivism 360 -10-