ABSTRACT
Randolph published the article "The Negro and Economic Radicalism" (Opportunity 38 [February 1926J: 62-64) in the monthly magazine of the Urban
League, an organization he had labeled as "conservative, or right wing" only three years earlier (see "The State of the Race" above). In this article he placed black economic radicalism, which he defined in terms of class consciousness and labor organization, in the tradition of Booker T. Washington. As he moved toward the mainstream as a labor leader, Randolph turned his back on the bolshevism he had once so admired.
