Cyril Lionel Robert James Quotes
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
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.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
Cyril Lionel Robert 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.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation.
Cyril Lionel Robert 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.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
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.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
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.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
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.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
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.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
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.
Cyril Lionel Robert James
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.
Cyril Lionel Robert James