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.

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

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.

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.

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