“W.Z. Foster {head of the American Communist Party}, who had no money, went to Moscow and came back and announced that he was building a great secret machine to undermine the American labor movement and turn it over to the Red International, owned by Lenin. He began publication of an expensive magazine and proclaimed 'a thousand secret agents in a thousand communities.'” TurnsCommunityPartySecretMovementBuildingThousandRedLaborMachinesInternationalJewMagazinesAgentsExpensiveCommunistPublicationNo MoneyMoscowCommunist PartyLabor MovementSecret Agent Author:Samuel Gompers
“The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either.” StatesPoliticalNationsPartyRepublicanMachinesFundamentalsDemocraticPrivilegeReachingBossHopelessRepublican PartyDemocratic PartyCrookedBeneficiaries Author:Theodore Roosevelt
“Human artifacts not only include material structures and objects, such as buildings, machines, and automobiles, but they also include organizations, organizational structures like extended families . . . tribes, nations, corporations, churches, political parties, governments, and so on. Some of these may grow unconsciously, but they all originate and are sustained by the images in the human mind.” MindHumansMayGovernmentPoliticalNationsGrowsChurchPartyObjectsBuildingMaterialsMachinesOrganizationStructureCorporationsHuman MindTribesPolitical PartiesAutomobileOrganizationalArtifactsExtended FamilyOrganizational Structure Author:Kenneth E. Boulding
“The federal government is a machine designed to increase its control over the lives of average Americans. It is constantly probing here, pushing there, and generally increasing its control. Without a philosophically sound, constitutionally based political party opposing that process, it is going to continue to do so with impunity.” GovernmentPoliticalProcessSoundPartyMachinesIncreaseAveragePushingFederal GovernmentPolitical PartiesOpposingImpunityProbing Author:Ed Crane