The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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.
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.
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 must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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.
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.
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.
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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.
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
