They are precisely alike and I challenge their most discriminating
partisans to tell them apart in relation to labor.
The Republican and Democratic parties are alike capitalist
parties—differing only in being committed to different sets of
capitalist interests—they have the same principles under varying colors,
are equally corrupt and are one in their subservience to capital and
their hostility to labor.
The ignorant workingman who supports either of these parties forges his
own fetters and is the unconscious author of his own misery. He can and
must be made to see and think and act with his fellows in supporting the
party of his class and this work of education is the crowning virtue of
the socialist movement.