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.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

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 rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

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

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.