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of the working class.

The workers also have a strong dislike for wanton destruction of property. They produced it. The creative labor they have embodied in this property gives it, in their eyes, a sentimental value which is quite apart from its use value or its exchange value. The destruction of property is distasteful to them, even when the property is used directly for their enslavement.

The property owners took no part in the actual productive labor, and they value the property only as a source of profits which they are ready to destroy whenever destruction is profitable. They are as ready to plan the wholesale destruction of property in a war between nations, as they are to plan retail destruction for the sake of fire insurance or to discredit striking workingmen.

There is a story from the ancient wars be-