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

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

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

“Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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