"A socialist Europe will proclaim the full independence of the colonies,
establish friendly economic relations with them and, step by step,
without the slightest violence, by means of example and collaboration,
introduce them into a world socialist federation. . . . The economy
of the unified Europe will function as one whole."

"The World Situation and Perspectives," St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1940
Writings of Leon Trotsky (NY: Merit Publishers, 1969), p. 25.

[MC5: It's a good thing that the Third World colonies did not wait for
Trotsky's 1940 prediction to come true, since not a single colony 
gained liberation the way Trotsky said. Those spreading illusions
about "advanced" labor aristocracies of the West today are accomplishing
the modern-day version of the same thing.]