Alan Woods

“The first condition for the development of a genuine proletarian morality is the complete and ruthless break with the slave morality of the bourgeoisie.”

“Marxism is a science, not a dogma.”

“The class="highlight">working class has no country, but it has a world to win.”

“Socialism is either international or it is nothing.”

“We are not utopians. We do not imagine that the problems of the world can be solved overnight.”

“Dialectics is the logic of motion, of development, of evolution.”

“Ideas which are incorrect must be fought with other ideas, but ideas which reflect the real interests of the working class will triumph.”

“The task of Marxists is to make the unconscious conscious.”

“The class="highlight">ruling class is not all-powerful. It makes mistakes, like any other class="highlight">ruling class in history.”

“The basis of the capitalist system is not production for the needs of the people, but the production for profit.”

“History knows no greater tragedy than the degeneration of a revolution.”

“The real barrier to the development of the productive forces is private ownership and the nation state.”

“In the final analysis, the viability of any socio-economic system depends on its ability to develop the productive forces.”

“The crisis of capitalism is also the crisis of reformism.”

“The role of the individual in history is important, but it is necessary to see it in its correct proportion.”