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1. "It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated." ~ C. L. R. James
2. "The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation." ~ C. L. R. James
3. "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
4. "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." ~ C. L. R. James
5. "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." ~ C. L. R. James
6. "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." ~ C. L. R. James
7. "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
8. "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
9. "It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear." ~ C. L. R. James
10. "Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation." ~ C. L. R. James
11. "As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study." ~ C. L. R. James
12. "Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change." ~ C. L. R. James
13. "The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known." ~ C. L. R. James
14. "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." ~ C. L. R. James
15. "All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market." ~ C. L. R. James
16. "All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca." ~ C. L. R. James
17. "First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle." ~ C. L. R. James
18. "I may as well say it, I have been married three times." ~ C. L. R. James
19. "I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense." ~ C. L. R. James

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The fact that Holmes had earlier lodgings in Montague Street (alongside the British Museum) is forgotten. That was before Watson and we must have Watson too."
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