I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.