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.

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.

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.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

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

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

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.