C. L. R. James

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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These are some quotes by Trinidadian author C. L. R. James Journalist, who lived between January 4, 1901 and May 19, 1989.

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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 peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.

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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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