Those Who Produce Should Have, But We

The Economic Owning Class Is Always The Political Ruling Class.

Every One Of The Aristocratic Conspirators And Would-be Murderers Claims To Be An Arch-patriot; Every One Of Them Insists That The War Is Being Waged To Make The World Safe For Democracy. What Humbug! What Rot! What False Pretense! These... Tyrants, These Red-handed Robbers And Murderers, The "patriots," While The Men Who Have The Courage To Stand Face To Face With Them, Speak The Truth, And Fight For Their Exploited Victims - They Are [called] The Disloyalists And Traitors. If This Be True, I Want To Take My Place Side By Side With The Traitors In This Fight.

Ten Thousand Times Has The Labor Movement Stumbled And Bruised Itself. We Have Been Enjoined By The Courts, Assaulted By Thugs, Charged By The Militia, Traduced By The Press, Frowned Upon In Public Opinion, And Deceived By Politicians. 'but Notwithstanding All This And All These, Labor Is Today The Most Vital And Potential Power This Planet Has Ever Known, And Its Historic Mission Is As Certain Of Ultimate Realization As Is The Setting Of The Sun.

I Am Not A Capitalist Soldier; I Am A Proletarian Revolutionist. I Do Not Belong To The Regular Army Of The Plutocracy, But To The Irregular Army Of The People. I Refuse To Obey Any Command To Fight From The Ruling Class, But I Will Not Wait To Be Commanded To Fight For The Working Class. I Am Opposed To Every War But One; I Am For That War With Heart And Soul, And That Is The World-wide War Of Social Revolution. In That War I Am Prepared To Fight In Any Way The Ruling Class May Make Necessary, Even To The Barricades.

The American People Can Have Anything They Want; The Trouble Is, They Don't Know What They Want.