Occupation: Journalist Birth: January 4, 1901 Death: May 19, 1989
An army is a miniature of the society which produces it..
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca..
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear..
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance..
Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard tho….
This independent Negro movement is able to intervene with terrific force upon the general social and political life of the nation, despite the fact t….
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….
The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism ….
Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change..
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 mu….
My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictl….
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage..
The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American ….
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated..
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known..
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives..
I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense..
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships..
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 cap….
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international rep….
First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle..