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.

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

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

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

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

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.

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