Chapter Seven: For Father and the Boys 159 Chapter Eight: For Mother and the Boys—and Girls 207 Chapter Nine: The Cross, the Cannon, and the Cash Register 244 Chapter Ten: Now What Shall We Do About It? 273 Chapter Eleven: A Short Lesson in the History of the Working Class 317 Chapter Twelve: Suggestions—and What to Read 338 Illustrations: Industrial Despotism, Craftily Called Freedom Frontispiece Leading Citizens—“We Want Wars” 31 Leading Citizens—“We Declare Wars” 33 Citizens Who Are Led—“We Fight the Wars” 35 Hired Hands Facing p. 46 Worn-Out Boxing Gloves of the Ruling Class 51 The History of Ignorance and Meekness 53 The War Is the Class War 169 The Beneficiaries of Hell, Flirting with Heaven Facing p. 206 The Noble Rôle of Cossacks and Militiamen Facing p. 207 Preparing Boy-Scout Hired Hands Facing p. 220 Four Victims of Cheap Patriotism 241 In My Name! After Nineteen Hundred Years! 245 PREFACE. Justice soothes. Justice heals the wounds and sores in the social body. Justice strikes down all robbery—illegal and legal. Justice calms. Injustice stings. Injustice burns, irritates—kills sociability and creates conflict. Injustice prevents brotherhood. Injustice is unsocial—anti-social—and is thus a social sore. Injustice, organized injustice, is the soul of all _class_-labor forms of society. The purpose of all class-labor forms of society is ROBBERY. The robbed resist—sometimes. The robbers are ready for resistance—always. In all _class_-labor forms of society the ruling class always have: FIRST, AN =ARMED= GUARD—READY: ready to serve as tusk and fist of the robber ruling class, ready to suppress protesting chattel-slaves, ready to suppress protesting serfs, ready to suppress protesting wage-earners, ready to defend the class-labor system, ready to extend the class-labor system, ready to defy and defeat and hold down and kick the robbed working class. SECOND, AN =UNARMED= GUARD—composed of prideless purchasable human things, social chameleons, moral eunuchs, political flunkies—intellectual prostitutes—READY: ready to make laws in the interest of the ruling class, ready to interpret laws in the interest of the ruling class, ready to execute laws in the interest of the ruling class,