18 SOCIAL SCIENTIST
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earn, But without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn;
We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we leam That the union makes us strong.
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold, Greater than the might of atoms magnified a thousand fold;
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old, For the union makes us strong.
Feature 1, that the workers constitute the majority of society, is not explicitly affirmed, but it is surely implied as part of the explanation of the immense potential power of the working class asserted in the first, third and fourth stanzas. The other part of the explanation of that power is that the workers are the producers, as the second stanza, and the all-important second line of the third, assure us. The feature of exploitation is apparent in the first line of the third stanza, and the third line of the second indicates how utterly deprived the workers are, no doubt on such a scale that the fifth feature (nothing-to-lose) obtains. As for the revolution feature, the third lines of each of the last two verses, and the second of the first, imply that the workers can change society, and it is dearly part of the message of the whole song that they will. 4 The material that follows is less thought through than what has been presented thus far. I am sure it will need to be changed, substantially, after it has received the criticism it deserves, and I hereby request such criticism.