The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

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

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.