Kwame Nkrumah: The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class. ... Our history needs to be written as the history of our society, not as the story of European adventures. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9476

W. E. B. Du Bois: Stalin was not a man of conventional learning; he was much more than that: he was a man who thought deeply, read understandingly and listened to wisdom, no matter whence it came. He was attacked and slandered as few men of power have been; yet he seldom lost his courtesy and balance; nor did he let attack drive him from his convictions nor induce him to surrender positions which he knew were correct. As one of the despised minorities of man, he first set Russia on the road to conquer race prejudice and make one nation out of its 140 groups without destroying their individuality. His judgment of men was profound. He early saw through the flamboyance and exhibitionism of Trotsky, who fooled the world, and especially America. The whole ill-bred and insulting attitude of Liberals in the U.S. today began with our naive acceptance of Trotsky’s magnificent lying propaganda, which he carried around the world. Against it, Stalin stood like a rock and moved neither right nor left, as he continued to advance toward a real socialism instead of the sham Trotsky offered. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9477

James Connolly: When questions of "class" interests are eliminated from public controversy a victory is thereby gained for the possessing, conservative class, whose only hope of security lies in such elimination. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9478

Oliver Cox: The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote9479