Capitalist Quote by C. L. R. James

“The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.”

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

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

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

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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 international reputation.

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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 for a…

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

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