C. L. R. James Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

30 most famous C. L. R. James quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an American journalist who passed away on 19 May, 1989.

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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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.”

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