Quotes from C. L. R. James

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

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, not their ferocity.

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 private capital than the government.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.

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

Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.

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

Today we ought to be able to see first that Booker T. Washington faced a situation in which he was seeking desperately for a way out, and he could see no way out except capitulation.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.

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 of 1848.

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

In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

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

Eminence engenders enemies.

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

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

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.