belong to
our class. And we will have no unity with any who flinch at the
'radicalism' of our program....

"The I. W. W. is not anti-political. Its members are free to be
members of the Socialist Party and thousands of us, the writer
included, do carry Socialist cards....

"The social revolution is not a thing of theories. It is merely the
final act of working-class organization. It is the historic mission
of the working class to mount to supreme power. They do this, not
by debating nor by marching in the street; they do this by the slow
process of organization. In their union halls, the workers learn
class consciousness. In their union halls, the workers learn
self-government. In their union halls, the workers are disciplined
and solidified for the 'final conflict.' Every strike is a
revolution in miniature. Every gain which organized workers make,
by a conscious act of their own, weakens capitalism and is
revolutionary. In short, the union movement is the schoolhouse of
the new society....

"Mr. Ferguson is not correct in asserting that the I. W. W. does
not have 'the sole aim of revolution.' In our Preamble, he will
find the boldest revolutionary utterance which has ever been
penned.... Even were we silent in revolutionary words, our very
form of organization and mode of action stamp us as revolutionists.
We are organized against capital. We are an army that is ever
battling....

"The real I. W. W. is not to be read in books of the intellectuals.
It does not flash in phrases. It is written in the hearts of strong
silent men. It can be read in the ineffable tales of anguish which
ring from the prisons of the land. It can be read in the tragic
sacrifices of the Littles, the Joe Hills, the Barans, the Looneys,
the Jonsons, the Rabinowitzes, the Gerlots, the Jack Whytes whom
destiny has claimed from among us. Its chapters have been penned,
not with words, but with the living dramas of Spokane and San
Diego, Lawrence and Paterson, McKee's Rocks, Everett and Mesaba
Range."

This is indeed the spirit of the most dangerous organization of devoted
fanatics in the world today, and if our present order of society hopes
to survive its steady, unrelenting assault, it must take into its hands
the weapons of truth and justice.

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