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

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

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

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.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.