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C. L. R. James

(1901–1989) Historian

38 quotes in 271 categories

C. L. R. James was a historian.

Quick Facts About C. L. R. James

Born: January 4, 1901
Died: May 31, 1989
Profession: Historian

About C. L. R. James

[Wikidata] Trinidadian historian, journalist and Marxist (1901–1989)... | [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

Quotes by C. L. R. James

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

Consequences

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

Ideas

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

Class

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The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous.…

Class

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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was…

Action

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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

Culmination

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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…

Articles

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Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately…

Able

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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.

Defeated

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Why are you chasing your tail so?" Said the kitten, "I have learned that the best thing for a cat is happiness,…

Art

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In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war…

Economics

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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large…

American people

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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

Country

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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…

Found

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Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

American imperialism

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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.

Capitalism

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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…

Accept

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There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.

Bleeding

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

Firsts

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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,…

Class

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In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism…

Bourgeois

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If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

Ifs

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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American…

Class

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

Mecca

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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

Antagonism

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