C. L. R. James Quotes
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The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that was. I came to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.
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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.
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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.