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• I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

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• I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

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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.

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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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• First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

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

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• All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

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• All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

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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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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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