James P. Cannon
James P. Cannon
James Patrick "Jim" Cannonwas an American Trotskyist and a leader of the Socialist Workers Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth11 February 1890
CountryUnited States of America
James P. Cannon quotes about
law land ignorant
The American capitalists are richer and stronger than their counterparts in other lands. They are also younger and more ignorant, and therefore more inclined to seek a rough settlement of difficulties without diplomatic subtlety and finesse. All that does not change the fact that American capitalism operates according to the same laws as the others, is confronted with the same fundamental problems, and is headed toward the same catastrophe.
home america world
The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.
victory impossible communist
No strike could ever be won with a Communist at its head since the employers would make victory impossible.
restoration movement revolution
Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.