And all this is entirely satisfactory to the industrial masters—great and small. (See page 175, [5].) The rulers rule. =(B) On the Political Field= the capitalist class divide the working class into two or more groups and have them politically antagonize themselves, have all the workers all the time politically sting and defeat one another—that is,—have them cancel the political _class_-power of the working class. One part of the working class vote one capitalist class party ticket, another part of the working class vote another capitalist class party ticket, another another, and so on. Thus millions of the confused working class politically defeat the working class and politically support their industrial masters by politically supporting _political parties_ (variously and craftily labeled) _which unanimously stand for the capitalist system_. Thus the confused working class are easily defeated _politically_—which makes it far easier to rob them _industrially_. By electing to political power _any_ political party standing for _any_ form of the capitalist _class_-labor system the working class give the _capitalist class complete control_ not only of all the political institutions, but also of all other institutions useable by a class in self-defense; because _the control of political institutions carries with it the legal right to control all other institutions_. In this political confusion, division and eclipse, the working class are as helpless as sheep, and, like sheep, are shorn by their political and industrial shepherds. And this also is entirely satisfactory to the masters of industry—both great and small. The rulers rule. We must learn this: Everywhere, always and under all circumstances the working class must _stand together_ in the use of _all_ forms of power we have in defense of our _class_. Having distinctly in mind, then, these important preliminaries,—and especially the fact that whatever we do in self-defense we must do _as a class banded together_, let us consider still further the source—the fountain-head—of the trouble called the class struggle, one form of which is commonly called war. _Society has many functions to perform. In order to perform these functions society must be organized._ _Always, it is most important to note, society is organized primarily with respect to the function of wealth production, because the production of things to live on comes before every other social function._ _For the performance of this function of wealth production society, developed beyond tribal communism, can be organized in two ways and only two ways_: =First Possible Form of Social Organization=: On the =Plan of Mutualism=—under which the INDUSTRIAL FOUNDATIONS of society are PUBLIC PROPERTY.