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

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

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 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.

Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too, have judged that happiness is in my tail. But, I have noticed that whenever I chase it, it keeps running away from me, and when I go about my business, it just seems to come after me wherever I go.

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

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.