They [the union] were members of the Communist Party - they didn't care one way or another about Russia, they just cared about the United States.

Work can be undertaken to create an authentic independent political party, a real party, based on popular participation from the ground up, not a top-down candidate producing organization like the two official parties, working from school boards to state legislatures and beyond. Not easy in the regressive U.S. political system, but not impossible.

I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.

The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.

A dramatic, evocative, thoughtful and very accessible account of one of the most important stories of the century - and one of the most ominous, unless citizens are aroused to action to rein in abusive state power.

The [Ronald] Reagan administration told the business world that they were not going to enforce the labor laws.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.