(9) You must have noticed that in turbulent strike times in your community hungry, humiliated, angry men never for a moment think of doing the least damage to the publicly-owned school houses, the publicly-owned libraries and the publicly-owned art galleries and the State University and the publicly-owned park. You see, the workers are in a more social relation to this social property. And if the mills, mines, factories, and railways and the like were socially owned and socially controlled, the workers would also be in a far more social relation toward this socialized industrial property. Then there would be no class war raging around the mines and shops. Then this property would need no protection from cheated, hungry, humiliated, maddened working people nor from detective crooks in the service of capitalists as incendiaries. Then the workers could not be haughtily turned down with the brutal “Nothing to arbitrate!” Then indeed there would be no industrial kings and emperors to demand: “Bring out the Gatling guns and the cossacks! This is our business!”
Notice:
Political justice is impossible under a political despotism.
Political democracy is the only known cure for political despotism.
Industrial justice is impossible under an industrial despotism.
Industrial democracy is the only cure for industrial despotism.
Industrial democracy would end the civil war in industry.
“The right to rule the political state is mine!”—says the king.
“You are wrong!” answer the most enlightened people.
The king steps down. He must.