Without Socialism the working class is a heterogeneous mixture of different categories, some of which have independent, varying interests, sometimes opposed to each other.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Socialism appeals to better classes and has far more strength. Attack the state and you excite feelings of loyalty even among the disaffected classes; but attack the industrial system and appeal to the state, and you may have loyalty in your favor.
Make no mistake: The organization of the working class must be both economic and political. The capitalist is organized upon both lines. You must attack him on both.
Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
Socialism, on the contrary, extends its function to the description of society as it should be, and the discovery of the means of making it what it should be.
I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won't be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
We have a myth of the classless society. You won't hear an American politician apart from Bernie Sanders talk about the working class. We are all middle class, apparently.
There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.
These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.