mankind to continue and to increase, in short, the capitalist class
failed to take advantage of the opportunity.

But the opportunity is still here. The capitalist class has been
tried and found wanting. Remains the working-class to see what it
can do with the opportunity. "But the working-class is incapable,"
says the capitalist class. "What do you know about it?" the working-
class replies. "Because you have failed is no reason that we shall
fail. Furthermore, we are going to have a try at it, anyway. Seven
millions of us say so. And what have you to say to that?"

And what can the capitalist class say? Grant the incapacity of the
working-class. Grant that the indictment and the argument of the
revolutionists are all wrong. The 7,000,000 revolutionists remain.
Their existence is a fact. Their belief in their capacity, and in
their indictment and their argument, is a fact. Their constant
growth is a fact. Their intention to destroy present-day society is
a fact, as is also their intention to take possession of the world
with all its wealth and machinery and governments. Moreover, it is a
fact that the working-class is vastly larger than the capitalist
class.

The revolution is a revolution of the working-class. How can the
capitalist class, in the minority, stem this tide of revolution?
What has it to offer? What does it offer? Employers' associations,
injunctions, civil suits for plundering of the treasuries of the
labour-unions, clamour and combination for the open shop, bitter and
shameless opposition to the eight-hour day, strong efforts to defeat
all reform, child-labour bills, graft in every municipal council,
strong lobbies and bribery in every legislature for the purchase of