C. L. R. James

Journalist

1901-01-04

Books by C. L. R. James

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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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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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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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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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