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. — 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 happiness is my tail. Therefore, I am chasing it: and when I catch it. I shall have happiness." Said the cat, "My son, I, too, have paid attention to the problems of the universe. I, too,… — C. L. R. James Copy Share
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
