The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of the people, the socialist revolution is advanced. The proletariat mobilizes itself as a self-acting force through its own committees, unions, parties, and other organizations.

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.

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.