"Let the class wars in the
industrial world continue," they say, "but extend the class war to
the political world." As their leader, Eugene V. Debs says: "So far
as this struggle is concerned, there is no good capitalist and no bad
working-man. Every capitalist is your enemy and every working-man is
your friend."
Here is class animosity in the political world with a vengeance. And
here is revolution. In 1888 there were only 2,000 revolutionists of
this type in the United States; in 1900 there were 127,000
revolutionists; in 1904, 435,000 revolutionists. Wickedness of the
President Roosevelt definition evidently flourishes and increases in
the United States. Quite so, for it is the revolution that
flourishes and increases.
Here and there a member of the capitalist class catches a clear
glimpse of the revolution, and raises a warning cry. But his class
does not heed. President Eliot of Harvard raised such a cry:
"I am forced to believe there is a present danger of socialism never
before so imminent in America in so dangerous a form, because never
before imminent in so well organized a form.
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