“A labor union is revolutionary in fact. It is not the expressed desire to change the world; it is the change already embodied if not completed.” ChangeRevolutionUnions Book:The Labor Movement : Its Conservative Functions and Social Consequences / (1921) [Leather Bound] Source: The Labor Movement : Its Conservative Functions and Social Consequences / (1921) [Leather Bound]
“I am not speaking here of the theory of the class struggle — I am speaking of the fact as the workers know it. Hundreds and thousands of workers are class-conscious without ever having heard of Marx and without coming in contact with the doctrine as such. They are class-conscious because their struggles for existence and their desire to escape from oppression and monotony, find constant opposition.” SocialismClass StruggleClass Consciousness Book:The Labor Movement : Its Conservative Functions and Social Consequences / (1921) [Leather Bound] Source: The Labor Movement : Its Conservative Functions and Social Consequences / (1921) [Leather Bound]