First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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.
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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.
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.