The working class must themselves become _organized political authority_, must seize the powers of government—and thus secure legal control of sovereign political power which carries with it the _legal right_[322] to control, or revise, or abolish, or reorganize industrial institutions; must thus secure the legal right (and power) to construct and inaugurate that industrial form of society which will destroy capitalism with its organized, legalized opportunity for class robbery, and which will, at the same time, substitute organized, legalized opportunity for every member of society to make a living without being robbed, opportunity to live without wasting and vulgarizing his life in a struggle against his fellow men. _And this destruction of unsocial capitalism and the construction, at the same time, in place of capitalism, the necessary social substitute, can be accomplished by the industrial reorganization of society on the following plan_— The Plan of Rational Mutualism: (=1=) The SOCIAL ownership of _the means of production_. (=2=) The SOCIAL control of _the means of production_. (=3=) Equality of OPPORTUNITY TO USE _the means of production_, under regulations made _by the workers themselves_. (=4=) The production of goods primarily for SOCIAL SERVICE OF ALL,—instead of primarily for PROFITS FOR A PART OF SOCIETY. (=5=) The SELF-EMPLOYMENT of all who are willing to do useful work,—by virtue of the fact of their joint ownership and joint control of the things the workers must collectively use in production, the reward of each to be undiminished by rent, interest or profits. (=6=) THE POSSESSION AND CONTROL OF THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT BY AND IN BEHALF OF THOSE WHO SEEK THE FREEDOM OF THE WORKING CLASS, BY THOSE WHO SEEK TO DESTROY THE TYRANNICAL CAPITALIST WAGE-SYSTEM AND THUS SECURE INDUSTRIAL LIBERTY. This plan connects every life with the source of life. This plan plants firmly the feet of all members of society upon the industrial foundations of society. Safe. Unafraid. Free. This mutualism in industry will not interfere with such private affairs as religious life, family life and social life,—any more than the mutual ownership of the public library now interferes with such private affairs. Thus we must, in short, SOCIALIZE SOCIETY,—by socializing the _ownership_, socializing the _control_, socializing the _management_, and socializing the _purpose_ of the industrial foundations of society. This would be the destruction of that class-labor system called capitalism which now rests on the institution of private property in the means of production; and this would, _at the same time_, also constitute a rational substitute—social in its nature. MUTUALISM would thus be in the STRUCTURE of society. The purpose of this form of society would be a fundamentally social purpose, namely, the welfare of all the willing-to-be-industrious members of society. The capitalist class, as such, would cease to exist.