(b) Under the wage-system the worker’s power to produce abundantly is so much greater than his permitted consuming power that the surplus product becomes so large as to make a foreign market, a world-market, necessary; and,
(c) Since many nations have reached and more nations are rapidly approaching this stage of development in production, yet still remain under the wage-and-profit plan of distribution, THE WORLD MARKET IS INSUFFICIENT FOR ALL OF THEM.
Hence there will be wars, if the working class permit them.
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.