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I may as well say it, I have been married three times. (C. L. R. James)
In 1950 the universal is as far beyond 1917 as 1917 was beyond the Paris Commune. A serious analysis of Stalinism will show that it is precisely the advanced objective relations of society which compel the counter­revolution to assume this form and dress itself in Marxism, fake action committees and all. We have to draw a new universal, more concrete and embracing more creative freedom of the masses than even State and Revolution. View quote
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Compared with what their masters had done to them in cold blood, what [the slaves] did was negligible, and they were spurred on by the ferocity with which the whites in Le Cap treated all slave prisoners who fell into their hands. View quote
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So it was that I became one of those dark men whose 'surest sign of ... having arrived is the fact that he keeps company with people lighter in complexion than himself'. View quote
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The first recorded date in European history is 776 B.C., the date of the first Olympic Games. View quote
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C. L. R. James

C. L. R. James - Image
Occupation: Trinidadian Historian
Born: January 4, 1901
Died: May 31, 1989
Quotes count: 55
Wikipedia: C. L. R. James

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