Top 30 Quotes by 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.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

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