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Wobblies frankly abjured the rules under which, as they would express it, the capitalist game is played. They said:
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If it serves our interests as members of the working class to obey certain accepted canons of conduct, we will obey them because it would be detrimental to our class to disobey them. Lawrence was not an ordinary strike. It was a social revolution _in parvo_. St. John is said to have written to Haywood,
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[586] This was a class war and the I. W. W. insists that the principle of military necessity justifies it in a policy of _schrecklichkeit_, at least to property, which on the syndicalist hypothesis was stolen anyway, in the beginning. The I. W. W. abjures current ethics and morality as _bourgeois_, and therefore inimical to the exploited proletarian for whom a new and approved system of proletarian morality is set forth. In this proletarian code the sanctions of conduct are founded on the (material) interests of the proletarian, _as such_. The criterion is expediency--effectiveness to one particular end, the overthrow of the wage system and the establishment of--something else--the words _industrial democracy_ or _coöperative commonwealth_ are commonly used in reference to that nebulous future state that all radicals see as in a glass, more or less darkly. This means that staid old New England was confronted with an organization which derided all her fond moralities. The most shocking _défi_ of these I. W. W.s was the _défi_ they hurled at the church. Only less so was the _défi_ they leveled at the flag. The I. W. W. said that the church, obedient to the dictates of big business, preached to the workers a servile obedience now for the sake of a hypothetical heaven of comfort later;
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they said,