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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: Change Discoveries Social Social Change Technological

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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.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: American American People Among Contemporary Depression Development Future Great Great Depression Large Most People Profound Sections Skepticism Society Striking

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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: Country Ever Greatest Known Profound Proletariat Social Upheaval

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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.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: After Against Capital Class Directed Government Had More Morgan Private Resentment Street Suffer Than Wall Wall Street War Working Working Class World World War World War I

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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: Appear Beginning Culmination New New Ones Periods Previous Revolutionary Trends

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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.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: Able Could Desperately Except Faced First He Ought Out See Seeking Situation Today Washington Way Which T

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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.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: Abolition Any Decided Going Hundred Hundred Years More Over People Plenty Reached Since Slavery Stage States Take Taken United United States Where Years

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

~C. L. R. James

Topics: American Both Class Development Industrial Late Mass Organization Political Retarded States Stimulated United United States Working Working Class

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In World War II the hostility and the exasperation resulting from the statification of the economy and the strain of the war have been directed as much against the government as against private capital.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: Against Been Capital Directed Economy Government Hostility Much Private Resulting Strain War World World War World War Ii

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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.

~C. L. R. James

Topics: American Being Changes Character Consciousness Demands Estimated Forward Found Leadership Now Proletariat Put Signs Surest

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Biography

Nationality: Trinidadian

Type: Journalist

Born: January 4th, 1901

Died: May 19th, 1989

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