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

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C. L. R. James

#Struggle Quotes #Class Quotes #Study Quotes

“I write because, exacting as it may be to do so, it is still more difficult to refrain, and because - however conscious of one's limitations one may be - there is always at the back of one's mind an irrational hope that this next book will be different: it will be the rounded achievement, the complete fulfilment. It never has been: yet I am still writing.”
“I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.”
“Without inner peace it is impossible to have world peace.”
“If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.”
“Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.”
“We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity.”
“To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.”
“It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.”

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