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. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is the result of proletarian democracy. To the degree that the proletariat mobilizes itself and the great masses of… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated. — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness, and that… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of… — C. L. R. James Copy Share Image
