_Wealth equivalent to three hundred and sixty-nine tons of gold ($200,000,000) was given by inheritance to William H. Vanderbilt’s eight children._[310] _If the daughter of John D. Rockefeller, senior, should by inheritance receive one-half of the present six-hundred-million-dollar fortune, she would receive, without rendering any service whatever, wealth equivalent to five hundred and fifty-three tons of gold._ Billions of dollars’ worth of mines, railways, factories, forests and other means of production, will, _by inheritance, without function_,—that is, without service—legally fall into the hands of the children of the present capitalist class, whether those children are intelligent, virtuous and industrious, or stupid, vicious and lazy. And thus, like the children of kings and nobles, they will be _in position to win the race of life without running_, in position to _prey upon others_ in the struggle for existence, in legal position to procure _substance without service_. This whole vast scheme of robbery—social parasitism—is “correct” and “proper,”—that is, the process is ELABORATELY LEGALIZED. _Parasitism is robbery._ _Parasitism does not cease to be parasitism, nor does robbery cease to be robbery, when, like chattel slavery, it shrewdly gets itself organized, baptized and legalized as an “eminently respectable” and profitable righteous institution for committing perpetual grand larceny._[311] Thus at present, as in the past under slavery, as in the past under serfdom, the ruling class, as intelligent parasites, prepare for class aggression, prepare for class robbery. They as a class create and secure their opportunity for legally robbing the producing class by arranging to _control the industrial structure_ of society and thus control the _performance_ of the _industrial function_—that is, the fundamental function, the _first_ function, of society. The ruled and robbed working class must get it in mind distinctly and unforgettably that the foundation of all class-labor forms of society, that which gives to _part_ of society the _control of society_, the foundation upon which industrial parasitism rests, the substructure of all despotism—is the _institution of private_ property in the _chief material means of production_. This institution SPLITS SOCIETY INTO TWO CLASSES, namely, the producers and the parasites. Political parties do not create classes. Political parties are a _consequence_ of industrial classes and are intended to _defend_ industrial classes. Sometimes, to make sure of victory, the capitalist class have several political parties in the field—under shrewdly _confusing names_.