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• Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

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• Body-line was not an incident, it was not an accident, it was not a temporary aberration. It was the violence and ferocity of our age expressing itself in cricket.

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

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• All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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• 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.

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

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• It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm’s Germany was defeated.

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• 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.

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Birth:	4th January, 1901
Death:	19th May, 1989
Nationality:	Trinidadian
Profession:	Historian, Journalist, Writer

About

Cyril Lionel Robert James was born in Tunapuna, Trinidad. He was a Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts. His work is a staple of subaltern studies, and he figures as a pioneering and influential voice in postcolonial literature. A tireless political activist, James's writing on the Communist International stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and his history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, is a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora. He is also famed as a writer on cricket.

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