![]() The class struggle, Debs added, is colorless. As the century unfolded, the white Marxist left, schooled by struggles for colonial freedom and by the self-activity of people of color in the centers of empire, increasingly saw the wisdom of Du Bois’s insight and tried hard to consider how knowledge of the color line could illuminate, energize, and express class struggles. Du Bois predicted that the color line would be its great divide, Eugene Victor Debs announced that the socialist movement that he led in the United States could and should offer nothing special to African Americans. His most recent book is Working toward Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White: The Strange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs (Perseus Publishing, 2006).Īs the twentieth century started, indeed at almost exactly the same moment that W. ![]() David Roediger (droedige ) teaches history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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