James P. Cannon Quotes

Workers of the world unite!

In four continents, workers, taking control of their destiny, are building a happy future, are building socialism, communism.

Any member of the party who … advocates crime, sabotage, or other methods of violence as a weapon of the working class to aid in its emancipation, shall be expelled from membership of the party.

Fellow workers and peasants, this is the socialist and democratic revolution of the working people, with the working people, and for the working people. And for this revolution of the working people, by the working people, and for the working people we are prepared to give our lives.

Workers of the world unite, it's not just a slogan anymore.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

The language of priorities is the religion of Socialism.

Workers! Leave the Socialist Party. It is your enemy and ours.

The working men of Europe felt instinctively that the Star Spangled Banner carried the destiny of their class.

Whoever wants to reach socialism by any other path than that of political democracy will inevitably arrive at conclusions that are absurd and reactionary both in the economic and the political sense.

In the final account, the fate of our republic will depend upon whether the masses of the peasantry will go hand in hand with the working class

We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth

Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.

I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.

It is we the workers who built these palaces and cities here in Spain and in America and everywhere. We, the workers, can build others to take their place. And better ones! We are not in the least afraid of ruins.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains.

I'm a Communist, fully convinced and dedicated to my cause.

The working classes in every country only learn to fight in the course of their struggles.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their knees was to press forward with determination and enthusiasm towards the ultimate goal of their efforts, a Co-operative Commonwealth for Ireland.

We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy can be widened, take on new aspects, become truly a rule of the people, only when it is extended to the economic life of the people.

Liberation is no longer, and can be no longer, merely a national concern. The dimension of the struggle, as Lenin and the Bolsheviks so clearly saw, is international: its road is the socialist revolution