Occupation: Journalist Birth: January 4, 1901 Death: May 19, 1989
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear..
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known..
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 ….
An army is a miniature of the society which produces it..
It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage wh….
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated..
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..
All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market..
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives..
The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resen….
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French ….
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study..
If you are not their slaves, you are rebels..
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of ….
Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change..
There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game..
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca..
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 speak….
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitali….
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international rep….
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance..