Max Shachtman Quotes

“... You have discovered the class struggle, or rather its reflection, in the ranks of the party.”

Max Shachtman

The Crisis in the American Party: An Open Letter in Reply to Comrade Leon Trotsky http://www.marxists.org/archive/shachtma/1940/03/crisis.htm, March 1940

“... the Negro in Africa had reared mighty empires, and astonishingly advanced achievements are linked with his race in the annals of mankind.”

Max Shachtman

Race and Revolution p. 44, 1933

“... Neither Washington nor Moscow but the Third Camp of Independent Socialism!”

Max Shachtman

Used by Shachtman but originally formulated by Joseph Carter.
Misattributed

“... The imperialism of the bureaucratic-collectivist states is different from that of the capitalist states. But the economic motive forces behind the one are no less powerful than in the case of the other. Only ignoramuses – people who know nothing about history and nothing about Lenin's theory of imperialism – can conceive of imperialism as a phenomenon unique to capitalist society.”

Max Shachtman

Socialist Policy and the War in New International p. 200, 1951