"This is the first instance in the history of the world that the oppressed class has virtually the same political basis as the ruling class."
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Journalists from the United StatesMembers of the United States House of RepresentativesJews from the United StatesSocialists from the United StatesPeople from Austria
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As quoted in Victor L. Berger: Making Marx Respectable, The Wisconsin Magazine of History, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Summer, 1964), pp. 301-308, by Roderick Nash
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Victor L. Berger
Victor L. Berger (February 28, 1860 – August 7, 1929) was an Austrian-American socialist politician and journalist who was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America and its successor, the Socialist Party of America.
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