Every historical form of society is in its foundation a form of organization of labor. While every previous form of society was an organization of labor in the interests of a minority, which organized its State apparatus for the oppression of the overwhelming majority of the workers, we are making the first attempt in world history to organize labor in the interests of the laboring majority itself.
Leon Trotsky, Terrorism and Communism: A Reply to Karl Kautsky
capitalism, exploitation, labour, liberation, socialism