47 Quotes by C. L. R. James

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

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.