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[Wikipedia] Cyril Lionel Robert James, who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was a Trinidadian historian, journalist, Trotskyist activist, and Marxist writer. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts. His work is a staple of Marxism, and he figures

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• 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… Came
• 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… Acting
• The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect… Class
• An army is a miniature of the society which produces it. Army
• The rich are only defeated when running for their lives. Defeated
• It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his… Among
• When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder,… Ferocity
• The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich. Among
• Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave. Dissimulation
• The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice,… Aim
• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard those they desert… Country
• First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle. All
• Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. Change
• All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market. All
• All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca. All
• As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. Class
• Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. Brought
• I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. Articles
• I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense. Africa
• 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… Art
• First of all, Bolshevism represents... African American
• The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. Country
• 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
• 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… All
• 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… Action

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