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.

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.

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

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.

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