Workers of the World Unite

Socialists believe that a huge part of their project was destroying these parochial blinders and allowing the workers of the world to recognize reality. Workers of the world unite. That had been the slogan going back to the communist manifesto in 18 forty eight. And what we are here to talk about toda is why, after all this effort, all the books and the pamphlets, the speeches, the declarations, the study groups, the meetings, the manifestoes, the workers ofthe world did not unite in the summer of 19 14,. Instead they joined their respective national war efforts and went off to murder each other in the millions.