Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
From C. L. R. James
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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.
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.
Today, in American imperialism, the commodity has reached its most grandiose historical manifestation.
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.
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
In the last quarter of the eighteenth century bourgeois Europe needed to emancipate itself from that combination of feudalism and commercial capitalism which we know as mercantilism.
Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.
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