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

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.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

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.

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.

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