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Quotes from State Capitalism and World Revolution — C. L. R. James

1901–1989 Trinidad and Tobago

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The crisis of production today is the crisis of the antagonism between manual and intellectual labor. The problem of modern philosophy from Descartes in the sixteenth century to Stalinism in 1950 is the problem of the division of labor between the intellectuals and the workers.

State Capitalism and World Revolution (1950)

The totality of the crisis has given manifold forms to the counter-revolution. The most deadly, the most insidious, the most dangerous is the Stalinist counter-revolution because it springs from the proletariat and cloaks itself in Marxist terminology.

State Capitalism and World Revolution (1950)

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