Quotes by C. L. R. James

About C. L. R. James:

Cyril Lionel Robert James is a staple of subaltern studies, and he figures as a pioneering and influential voice in postcolonial literature. A tireless political activist, James's writing on the Communist International stirred debate in Trotskyist circles, and his history of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins, is a seminal text in the literature of the African Diaspora.
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Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences.

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

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

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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.

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It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

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

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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.

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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.

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I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameC. L. R. James
  • DescriptionTrinidadian writer
  • AliasesCyril Lionel Robert James
  • BornJanuary 4, 1901
  • DiedMay 31, 1989
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; Trinidad And Tobago
  • ProfessionHistorian; Journalist; Novelist; Writer