C. L. R. James Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

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

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

“The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.”

“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.”

“Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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