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

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.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

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.

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

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

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.