C. L. R. James

“The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.”