And yet the political economists of today behave exactly like the gymnastic instructor. According to their mode of reasoning, man is a mere body a machine and they base their laws on this assumption. Though aware that man has a soul, they do not take it into account. Every time there is a strike, we have a clean proof that economics is not a science, that it is worse than useless. In such situations, the employers take one view of the matter, the workers another.
Men rack their brains to prove that the interests of the employers and the employees are identical.
These men know nothing of such matters. In fact, it does not always follow that because their worldly interests economic interests are at variance men must be antagonistic to each other. Let us suppose that the members of a family are starving. The family consists of a mother and her children. They have only one crust of bread between them.