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 such Oriental countries as China from centuries of sleep.

The factory system and the manufacture for a world market changes the lower classes from slaves and serfs into wage-workers who quickly learn that their interests are the same the world over. The fact that the industries are gigantic in size and require the co-operation of millions of workers to carry on the process from raw material to the finished product, teaches that the means of employment, the lands, mines, mills, railroads and the like, are really social property and should be owned by the people together.

The wage-workers being more or less free politically, unite into the Socialist Party, to secure the powers of government and thereby take over the industries. Once this is done, the payment of rent, interest, profit and other forms of unearned wealth, is made to cease, and the whole of the people become useful workers, making things for their own enjoyment. Thus begins the coming civilization—Socialism.

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