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.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.