The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

- James P. Cannon

The economic prerequisites for the socialist revolution are fully matured in the US. The political premises are likewise far more advanced than might…

- James P. Cannon

These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. E…

- James P. Cannon

Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russia…

- James P. Cannon

No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.

- James P. Cannon

The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more …

- James P. Cannon

The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

- James P. Cannon