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“The trade unions are the “direct organizers of the struggle of the working class for the increase in production.” But “the workers must feel that their trade union organization is concerned with their welfare.”

“It is noteworthy that in the United States the capitalist class is aware of this, and the most significant work that is being done in political economy is the desperate attempt to find some way of reconciling the working class to the agonies of mechanized production and transferring its implacable resistance into creative cooperation.”

“Whether democratic or totalitarian, both types of society are in permanent decline and insoluble crisis. Both are at a stage when only a total reorganization of social relations can lift society a stage higher."

“The decisive question is not whether centralization is complete or partial, heading toward completeness. The vital necessity of our time is to lay bare the violent antagonism of labor and capital at this definitive stage of centralization of capital.”

“Ford’s regime before unionization is the prototype of production relations in Fascist Germany and Stalinist Russia.”

“The state control of social life against which capitalist liberalism so strived, is to become a reality. There is no turning back either to free competition or to the domination of trusts, syndicates, and other kinds of social anomalies.”

Quite the shift from his 'Modern Politics', this is heavy-duty theory stuff!

“The ultimate aim in Coventry, Berlin, Detroit and Poznan is not liberal free speech nor higher wages, “compensation” nor “consultation,” but the construction of a new society from the bottom up.”