C. L. R. James

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

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

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

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

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

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