C. L. R. James Quotes

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
C. L. R. James

Today, American, Historical

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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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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War, Government, After

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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Market, Entangled, Net

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
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Washington, Converted, Modem

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
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Great, Struggle, Study

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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Together, Social, Capitalism

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
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Great, History, Said

First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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Struggle, Revolution, Represents

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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History, Reputation, Written

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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Black, Speak, Walk

I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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May, Married, Times

I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.
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Idea, Nonsense, United

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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Few, Found, Left

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.
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Political, Enterprise, Draws

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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Last, Capitalism, Europe

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.
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War, Government, Against

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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Beginning, Appear, Trends

It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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War, Defeated, Germany

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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Since, United, Taken

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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Government, Teacher, Father

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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Leadership, Forward, Character

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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Life, Women, Men

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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Greatest, Country, Social

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
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Home, Last, Stands

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Biography

Nationality: Trinidadian

Type: Journalist

Born: January 4, 1901

Died: May 19, 1989

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