First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

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

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

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.

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.