“The end toward which mankind is inexorably developing by the constant overcoming of internal antagonisms is not the enjoyment, ownership, or use of goods, but self-realization, creativity based upon the incorporation into the individual personality of the whole previous development… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“The slave-trade and slavery were the economic basis of the French Revolution. ‘Sad irony of human history,’ comments Jaurès. ‘The fortunes created at Bordeaux,… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs, among the very leaders of their society, but… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“Yet when the masses turn (as turn they will one day) and try to end the tyranny of centuries, not only the tyrants but… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“The end toward which mankind is inexorably developing by the constant overcoming of internal antagonisms is not the enjoyment, ownership, or use of goods,… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“But today as then, the great propertied interests and their agents commit the most ferocious crimes in the name of the whole people, and… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“The slaves destroyed tirelessly. Like the peasants in the Jacquerie or the Luddite wreckers, they were seeking their salvation in the most obvious way,… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression.” — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image
“Leader of a backward and ignorant mass, he was yet in the forefront of the great historical movement of his time. The blacks were… — C.L.R. James Copy Share Image