 All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca. |
| In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism. |
| I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense. |
| Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences. |
| It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated. |
| After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government. |
| The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people. |
| One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership. |
| My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas. |
| The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage. |
| First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle. |
| 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. |
| As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. |
| Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. |
| 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. |
| All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market. |
| The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation. |
| Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. |
| The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class. |
