C. l. r. james

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.

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

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.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

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.

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

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

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

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