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Perhaps the finest contribution of current Socialism to the world is neither its light nor its dogma, but the idea back of its one mighty word--Comrade!
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W.E.B. Du Bois
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Du Bois highlights the importance of camaraderie in socialism as a powerful unifying concept.
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