C. L. R. James

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

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

I had a national and international reputation. I had written the history and articles. So I brought to the Trotskyist movement some international reputation. ”

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships. ”

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. ”

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. ”