The future wars will be due chiefly to ignorance of social nature, due to our _inability to get into right relations_ WITH ONE ANOTHER _industrially_. War produced slavery, chattel slavery. Chattel slavery evolved into serf-slavery. Serf-slavery evolved into wage-slavery. And wage-slaves produce so much and are permitted to consume so small a proportion of what they produce, that the capitalists must order the wage-slaves to fight for a foreign market for what the wage-slaves produce and the capitalist employers do not consume or invest and the wage-slaves are not permitted to consume. War thus originated slavery and now slavery [wage-slavery] ends in war. _War, conflict, struggle, Antagonism is in the social structure wherever there is slavery._ Slavery is fundamentally unsocial—anti-social. Now, the capitalist employer insists that the wage-earner and the employer are in _proper_ relation to each other. The capitalist is satisfied to have had the first two class-labor forms of society (slavery and serfdom) pass away. But he accepts the _present_ class-labor form of society (the wage-system) as _correct_; it is satisfactory—to him. And he craftily has it taught in the high schools, colleges and universities that the employer and the wage-earner are at present in proper relation to each other. The capitalist enjoys his own freedom _at the expense of the worker’s freedom_. He is eager to have the wage-earner _believe_ that he too is free; and that, being free, he should be satisfied AND KEEP QUIET. The capitalists explain that the wage-earners are free because the wage-earners have the _privilege of making a contract_, a contract to _work for wages_; that the wage-earners being thus at last free to make a contract, they have reached their final status, an ideal status; and that thus (Blessed be the Lord!) _evolution has finally finished its great work_—the work is done and _well_ done. _Capitalists and the intellectual flunkies of the capitalist class do all possible to have the world believe the following proposition_: THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN RELATIONS IS FINISHED—PERFECT—IN INDUSTRY; AND, THEREFORE, THE WAGE-EARNERS ARE FOOLISH AND UNGRATEFUL TO BE DISCONTENTED, AFTER HAVING DEVELOPED TO THEIR PRESENT STAGE OF INDUSTRIAL FREEDOM. Following is a sample of the familiar soothing congratulation on our having reached the present noble form of industrial freedom and civilization. Professor Fairbanks (Yale University) writes thus:[352]