1. The Bridge over the Racial Divide
... why there was "No Large Socialist Party in America" as follows: "Then and more especially, 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 .....
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