W.E.B. Du Bois wrote ‘The Problem of Problems‘ for Intercollegiate Socialist. challenging the Socialist Party and the labor movement over U.S. history and their racism and refusal to organize Black workers or to fight for Black civil and human rights. In this issue, Eugene Debs writes a response to his close reading of Du Bois’ article. They should be read together and are both contained in the same cumulative PDF file below.

The Intercollegiate Socialist Review. Vol. 6 No. 4. April-May, 1918.

Contents: Editorials, Karl Marx by Caro Lloyd, The Real Goal of Socialism by Robert J. Sprague, The Negro: His Status and Outlook by Eugene V. Debs, Labor’s Part in the Settlement by W. Harris Crook, The Development of the Guild Idea by Ordway Tead, Cooperation in War Time by E. Ralph Cheyney, Health Insurance by Olga S. Halsey, The Prospect of German Democracy by William E. Bohn, Socialism and Men by Ellery F. Reed, Book Reviews, College Notes, The Collegian – In Warsaw and Chicago by Samuel P. Gurman.

The Socialist Review was the organ of the Intercollegiate Socialist Society, and replaced The Intercollegiate Socialist magazine in 1919. The society, founded in 1905, was non-aligned but in the orbit of the Socialist Party and had an office for several years at the Rand School. It published the Intercollegiate Socialist monthly and The Socialist Review from 1919. Both journals are largely theoretically, but cover a range of topics wider than most of the party press of the time. At first dedicated to promoting socialism on campus, graduates, and among college alumni, the Society grew into the League for Industrial Democracy as it moved towards workers education. The Socialist Review became Labor Age in 1921.

PDF of full issue: https://books.google.com/books/download/The_Socialist_Review.pdf?id=WEQ2lilfYWoC&output=pdf