The working class, as such, would cease to exist. All—all the people would be in full, vital, unhindered, unrobbed connection with the industrial foundations of society, the chief material means of production. All people of proper age and condition of health would become workers. Industrial class lines would disappear. Industrial mastery would disappear. Industrial dependence would disappear. This would be the foundation of industrial democracy. This would be reorganization. This would be revolution. A revolution is a rapid, fundamental change in a _fundamental_ institution. The rapid _reorganization_ of industry into the form called the _trust_ is a revolution—now in process. The trust magnates are revolutionists—_so far as it suits their economic interests_. Revolutions are neither noisy nor bloody, _unless there is violent effort to prevent the growth of society_. As to the matter of being afraid of revolutions: Why should we clap our hands in praise of the American Revolutionists (who employed sword, rifle, bayonet and cannon in their revolution) and then harshly condemn the peaceful Socialists who stand for peace in all parts of the world and always urge the orderly methods of procedure in accomplishing the revolution (the fundamental change) they seek to effect. Don’t be afraid. _Fortunately millions of American school boys and girls are required to commit to memory the following words of splendid defiance and self-respect_: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: ... That governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever _any form_ of government becomes destructive of these ends (the inalienable rights ... life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness) _it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it_, and to _institute_ a NEW government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to _them_ shall seem MOST LIKELY to effect their safety and happiness.... _When a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under an absolute despotism, it is their_ RIGHT, _it is their_ DUTY, _to_ THROW OFF SUCH GOVERNMENT _and to provide_ NEW _guards for their future security_.”—American Declaration of Independence. Don’t be afraid. “The State must from time to time readjust the relation of government to liberty.... As the people of the State advance in civilization, the domain of liberty must be widened.”—Professor John W. Burgess, Head of Department of Political Science, Columbia University.[323] Don’t be afraid. The time has come for the workers to use their _political_ liberty to secure _industrial_ liberty—to “widen the domain of liberty,” to secure a fair race, to secure equality of opportunity. Equality? Yes,—equality of opportunity. Certainly. Why not?