C. L. R. James quotes

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels. (C. L. R. James)
The rich are only defeated when running for their lives. View quote
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The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased. View quote
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The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental. View quote
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear. View quote
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Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave. View quote
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. View quote
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All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca. View quote
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There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game. View quote
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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. View quote
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Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. (C. L. R. James)
All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market. View quote
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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. View quote
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation. View quote
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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. View quote
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As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense. View quote
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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. (C. L. R. James)
The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class. View quote
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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. View quote
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle. View quote
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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. View quote
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