C. L. R. James Quotes

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C. L. R. James

Profession : Journalist

Birth : January 4, 1901

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.

C. L. R. James

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

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

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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

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

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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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