After World War I the resentment of the... by C. L. R. James

Author World Government Race historian

After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

- C. L. R. James

Other quotes by C. L. R. James

Government World

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.

- C. L. R. James

Leadership Now Being

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

- C. L. R. James

Country

The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.

- C. L. R. James

Home

The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.

- C. L. R. James

Development

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

- C. L. R. James

Beginning

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

- C. L. R. James

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