(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.