My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.