ABSTRACT
Even a casual perusal of the socialist and radical literature on the contemporary condition of the working class and the prospects of its making a revolution reveals a situation of towering confusion. Labor is wedded to the ideology of American society and that means the politics of interest groups and the economics of state manipulation. The workingman is often too ill-equipped, without training in the rudiments of law and economics, to rise in union ranks; he is not likely to replace present union leadership with a more militant voice. The failure of labor politics in the United States largely flows from the new forms of work, which increasingly revolve around the peculiar cross fertilization of labor and management or, at the very least, of technical labor and professional occupations. Men who work also deserve to be men who rule.
