C. L. R. James Quotes

The rich are only defeated when running for their lives.

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.

If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.

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

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

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.

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.

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

When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.