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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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