Trinidadian - Journalist | January 4, 1901 - May 19, 1989
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.
C. L. R. James
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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.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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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.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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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.
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