“The economic unity of the workers must first be effected before there can be any progress towards emancipation. The interests of the millions of wage workers are identical, regardless of nationality, creed, or sex, and if they will only open their eyes to this simple, self-evident fact, the greatest obstacle will have been overcome and the day of victory draw near.”
Working Class Politics (1910)
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1930s, Message to Congress on establishing minimum wages and maximum hours (1937)

Collected Works, Vol. 20, pp. 393–454.
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from "The Social-Democratic View of the National Question", 1904 (aged 26) http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1904/09/01.htm
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“International unity of the workers is more important than the national.”
Letter to Inessa Armand (20 November 1916) Collected Works, Vol. 35, pp. 246-247.
1910s

The Labour Party in Perspective (Left Book Club, 1937), p. 153.
Leader of the Opposition
interview by Gerardo Munck on February 24, 2003, published in Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics edited by Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder

1900s, Address at Providence (1901)
Context: Where men are gathered together in great masses it inevitably results that they must work far more largely through combinations than where they live scattered and remote from one another… Under present-day conditions it is necessary to have corporations in the business world as it is to have organizations, unions, among wage workers.