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.

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.

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

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

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

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.

Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.