Trotskyist Quotes by C L R James

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C L R James has 42 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• I was a Labour Party man but I found myself to the left of the Labour party in Nelson, militant as that…
• The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism. Socialism is…
• The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous.…
• An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.
• The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.
• It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its…
• When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which…
• The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
• Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.
• The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at…
• Property-owners are the most energetic flag-waggers and patriots in every country, but only so long as they enjoy their possessions: to safeguard…
• First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

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