Quotes from C. L. R. James

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

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

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 to London and in a few months I was a Trotskyist.

All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

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

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

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

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

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

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

I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

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 people.