The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.