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" Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation. "
C. L. R. James
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" 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. "
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" I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense. "
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" Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change. "
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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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" Imperialist enterprise draws political consequences. "
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" The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation. "
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" As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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" The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known. "
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" I may as well say it, I have been married three times. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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