See Index: “Another War.”
Footnote 294:
Published by Ginn and Company, New York.
Footnote 295:
Italics mine. G. R. K.
Footnote 296:
_Voltaire’s Philosophical Dictionary._
Footnote 297:
_The Psychology of Jingoism_, pp. 41, 133.
Footnote 298:
_National and Social Problems_, pp. 252–53.
Footnote 299:
The New York _World_, editorial, August 15, 1907. Italics mine. G. R.
K.
Footnote 300:
_Newer Ideals of Peace_, pp. 114–15. Italics mine. G. R. K.
CHAPTER TEN.
Now What Shall We Do About It?
“No people will toil and sweat to keep a class in idleness unless
_cajoled_ or _compelled_ to do so.... There are various devices by
means of which a body of persons may sink their fangs into their
fellows and subsist upon them. Slavery ... is the primary form of
the parasitic relation. By modifying this into serfdom the parasitic
class, without the least abating its power of securing its
nourishment from others, places itself in a position more convenient
to it and less irritating to the exploited.... Finally, the
institution of property is so shaped as to permit a slanting
exploitation under which a class is able to live in idleness. The
parasitic class is always a ruling class, and utilizes as many as it
can of the means of control.”—Professor Edward A. Ross, Department
of Sociology, University of Wisconsin.[301]
“The various institutions, political, ecclesiastical, professional,
industrial, etc., including the government, are devices, means,
gradually brought into existence, to serve interests that develop
within the State.”—Professor Albion W. Small, Head of Department of
Sociology, University of Chicago.[302]
“The non-industrial or _parasitic_ classes are often the most
active.... They are wonderfully successful in _creating the belief_
that they are the most important of all the social elements.”—Dr.
Lester F. Ward, Department of Sociology, Brown University.[303]
The preceding chapters have, it is hoped, been of some assistance to the
reader in realizing in what unqualified contempt the working class are
held in our boasted civilized society,—how utterly the working class are
tricked and betrayed, brutalized and bled, degraded and despised,
robbed, starved and stung,—their flesh torn, their blood spilt, their
bodies tossed to the buzzards and grave-worms, and even the widows and
orphans insulted with thirty dirty pieces of silver in payment for the
life and love and joy lost in war. Having tried to make this, and more,
clear, now let me explain “what to do about it.”
What, indeed, shall the working class do to rid themselves of the curse
called war?
We can do nothing, absolutely nothing, with sweeping effectiveness, till
we understand the industrial structure and purpose of the present order
of society, and, as a class, also understand the art of
self-defense—political and industrial class-defense.
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