James P. Cannon Quotes
They killed Trotsky not by one blow; not when this murderer, the agent of Stalin, drove the pickax through the back of his skull. That was only the final blow. They killed him by inches. They killed him many times. They killed him seven times when they killed his seven secretaries. They killed him four times when they killed his four children. They killed him when his old coworkers of the Russian Revolution were killed …. Stalin and his traitor gang were consumed by a mad hatred of the man who reminded them of their yesterday. Trotsky, the symbol of the great revolution, reminded them constantly of the cause they had deserted and betrayed, and they hated him for that. They hated him for all the great and good human qualities which he personified and to which they were completely alien. They were determined, at all cost, to do away with him.
James P. Cannon, 1890-1974, National Chairman, Workers Party of America, Obituary, Leon Trotsky Memorial Meeting, Diplomat Hotel, New York City. August 28, 1940
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James Patrick Cannon was an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party.
