“Revolutionary tactics must harmonize with revolutionary principles. We could better hope to succeed with reactionary principles and revolutionary tactics than with revolutionary principles and reactionary tactics.”

Sound Socialist Tactics (1912)

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American labor and political leader 1855–1926

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