“A race that is fair requires an equal start.... The state must aim at perpetual renewal of the opportunities of life in every man and class of men.”—Dr. John Bascom, Ex-President of the University of Wisconsin.[324] Don’t be afraid. There will be no noise, no bloodshed; all will be orderly, legal and sociable—unless the capitalists anarchistically refuse to obey the law. In that case, of course, the roused, proud and powerful working class will do _whatever is made necessary_ by the anarchistic capitalists. BE IT REMEMBERED—DISTINCTLY: THE ROUSED WORKING CLASS, ROUSED TO SELF-RESPECT, ROUSED TO CLEARNESS OF VISION BY THE STUDY OF THE FACTS, ROUSED TO REALIZE THE WRONGS THRUST INTO THE LIVES OF THE WORKERS PAST AND PRESENT, ROUSED TO SEE THEIR RIGHTS AND REALIZE THEIR POWER AS A CLASS,—SUCH A WORKING CLASS WILL BE A WHOLLY DIFFERENT CLASS FROM THE PRESENT MEEK, WEAK, CHEATED GRATEFUL SLAVES. Don’t be afraid. We are weary of Antagonism. We seek Mutualism. The American Revolutionists said plainly in their Declaration that it is a DUTY to reorganize society, under certain circumstances. We recognize our duty. We make no cheap and noisy boast of insulting defiance. We see our goal—Peace and Freedom. We shall build Peace and Freedom into the Structure of Society. We scorn any wheedler who would betray us from the correct, direct path to our goal. We accept any challenge from those who would by force defeat us. _Social reconstruction_—that is our plain duty. Thus we of the working class must, to this extent, unify,—that is, mutualize, socialize,—society. The class aggression of the capitalist class would cease with the disappearance of the capitalist class in the reconstructed society. And the class resistance by the working class would cease with the disappearance of the robbing of the workers in the reconstructed society. Thus would disappear the unsocial clashing of class interests—the class struggle. And thus also would disappear the dominant motives for “foreign” wars and “civil” wars. Thus the working class could remove war—both from the shop and from the battlefield. Thus we would inaugurate peace simply by removing the cause of war. _Is a political party of the working class necessary for this political work of the working class?_ To accomplish the work of industrial reconstruction we must first secure the political powers of government and thus secure the right, the legal right, and legal power to do this work. A POLITICAL PARTY IS SIMPLY A LEGITIMATED ORGANIZATION WITH WHICH TO SEIZE AND USE SOVEREIGN POWER—TO BECOME AUTHORITY. (See page 280.) The political power and privilege necessary to accomplish this industrial reconstruction of society—this political power and privilege—can be secured only by means of a political party; and that party must, of course, be a party _wholly committed_ to this industrial _reconstruction_ of society.[325]