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

Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert God, King and Country in a twinkling.

I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

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.

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

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