This fact has driven many workers, dissatisfied with industrial conditions and disillusioned with politics, to join the I. W. W., a revolutionary organization dominated by Syndicalist ideas. This it just another proof that in America the Socialist movement is divorced from the great mass of the working class. In the United States the Socialists have some power. They can swing a million votes. But they cannot compete with bourgeois reform groups like the Progressives, or the Democrats under Wilson.
Nothing teaches the American working class except hard times and repression.
Hard times are coming, repression is organized on a grand scale. In America for a long time there has been no free land, no opportunity for workers to become millionaires. The working class does not yet know this. The very fact that for the next decade America promises to be the most reactionary quarter of the globe is sure to have its effect. If Tom Mooney stays in jail, if wages go down, if Socialists are arrested and the red flag suppressed, there will be a revolutionary movement in this country in five years.