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The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed...

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An army is a miniature of the society which produces it.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

Uninhibited, they wallowed with zest in the filth and mire of their political conceptions and needs,...

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The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

In politics all abstract terms conceal treachery.

The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

Beyond A Boundary

Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the ...

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One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is...

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C. L. R. James

Journalist

Born: 1901-01-04

Died: 1989-05-19

Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 19 May 1989) was a Trinidadian-born anti-colonial Marxist activist and writer.More