Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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.
The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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.
