Top 30 Quotes by C. L. R. James

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.