C. L. R. James Quotes

• 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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• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

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

   

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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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• 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 late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.

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• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together – in their s*xual relationship.

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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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  Tags in Skepticism, Section, Depression

• Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

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  Topics in America, History

  Tags in Imperialism, Commodity

• 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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• The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

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  Tags in Suffrage, Elected

C. L. R. James (31)

Birth:	4th January, 1901
Death:	19th May, 1989
Nationality:	Trinidadian
Profession:	Historian, Journalist, Writer

About

Cyril Lionel Robert James was born in Tunapuna, Trinidad. He was a Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts. His work is a staple of subaltern studies, and he figures as a pioneering and influential voice in postcolonial literature. A tireless political activist, James's writing on the Communist International stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and his history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, is a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora. He is also famed as a writer on cricket.

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