Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

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.

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.