It compresses fully six distinct subjects, running along parallel lines. It condenses the essence of fully six sociologic topics, which woven together, constitute a mighty thought. A political party of Labor is a necessity. Incidentally, it follows from this, as the reverse of the thought, that a bogus party of Labor must, in some way, be the product or reflex of some bogus economic organization. A political party of Labor can not ignore the trunk from which it is a shoot.
Marxian sentences are like thick racemes of grapes.
They yield grape after grape. Digested, they make the digestor to see as on a map the border lines of the contiguous territories of the American Federation of Labor and the Socialist Party, and of the Industrial Union and the Socialist Labor Party. Marx has uttered many pregnant sentences. None more so than the text that heads this article.