An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

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

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

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

The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.