War and all the forms of the class struggle are excessive social inflammation.[314] * * * * * (a) Injustice violently inflames society. (b) Social parasitism is monstrously unjust. (c) Social parasitism therefore inflames society—and should be destroyed. * * * * * (a) Any form of society that produces and protects a class of social parasites will always inflame society, and should therefore be destroyed. (b) Capitalism produces and protects a class of social parasites, and thus inflames society. (c) Capitalism must therefore be destroyed. * * * * * Justice soothes society. Society must be organized with justice _in its structure_. We must search for justice—for a new _social structure_. We must construct a form of society that will “make it easier to do right and more difficult to do wrong.”[315] Shall we be non-resistant? No, emphatically, no. Non-resistance is not natural (especially for the class conscious workers)—for workers who _understand their interests as a class_; and non-resistance is not reasonable, is not safe, and is not possible. Non-resistance would mean defeat and degradation for the working class—forever.[316] Then is peace a childish dream and is war to be an endless wrangle and blood-spilling nightmare—for the working class? No—not necessarily. We must resist. But we should not resist first and only by physical force. The working class must THINK—or they will have to struggle and bleed and weep and wait forever,—wait and whimper like babies in the woods for “some one” or some “good people” to come and “save” them. The workers must _think till they find a form of social organization_ in which the fundamental cause of war, that is, _class_ robbery, will have _no opportunity_, and will therefore cease to exist. What Dr. Ward calls the “spirit of aggression” will fade and finally expire when the _condition_ (the parasitic opportunity) which _cultivates_ the “spirit of aggression” is _destroyed_. _The founders of the American republic resisted fearlessly, by force too. But the working class in the United States at present should not, and cannot now, with advantage, resist by force and force alone, and that for very good reasons_: FIRST:—We of the working class in the United States have now for our own class defense another, and better, form of power, a form of power less dangerous, less expensive, quieter and more legal and therefore more strategic,—_a form of power that makes the capitalist class dread the awakening of the working class_; namely, our political power—our united ballots.