Top 30 Quotes by C. L. R. James

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

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.

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

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.