Excerpt from As to Politics, and a Discussion Upon the Relative Importance of Political Action and of Class Conscious Economic Action, and the Urgent Necessity of Both The contents of the pamphlet which follows are discus sions arising in 1906 from a timely topic. Discussions of this kind generally lose all interest when the topic in question is once disposed of. By peculiar circumstances the very dis posal of this topic has made this discussion more alive than ever. The reason is the old one: Nothing is ever settled till it is settled right. When the I. W. W. In 1908 settled the question of its relation to politics by striking from its pre amble the political clause, it settled the question in a man ner economically and historically unsuited to the conditions under which it is working and organizing, and that initial wrong has born a litter of evil consequences, so dark and foreboding as to constitute a positive danger to the wage working class of America. In view of the events of the last decade the clear, sound, and warning words of Daniel De Leon contained in these pages ring like a prophesy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.