1. The Bridge over the Racial Divide
... , immigration, which divides the workers into two groups: The native born and the foreigners, and the latter into the Irish, the Germans, the many small groups, each of which understands only itself: Czechs, Poles, Italians, Scandinavians, etc. And then the negroes. To form a single party out of these requires quite unusually powerful incentives. Often there is a sudden violent elan, but the bourgeoisie need only wait passively and the dissimilar elements of the working class fall ... apart again." Wilson may argue that Engels' immutable "group" is merely a collection of individuals, eac...
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