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Cyril Lionel Robert James TC war ein Kulturkritiker, Journalist und ein bedeutender sozialistischer Theoretiker und Schriftsteller. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. Januar 1901 – 31. Mai 1989
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“There can be raw pain and bleeding where so many thousands see the inevitable ups and downs of only a game.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Beyond a Boundary (1963)
Beyond a Boundary (1963)

“Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.”

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Quelle: The Black Jacobins (1938), p. 334

“If you are not their slaves, you are rebels.”

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James is quoting Toussaint Louverture's speech to his troops--most of whom, like Toussaint himself, were former slaves. The "their" refers to the French imperialists, p. 307
The Black Jacobins (1938)

“Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Beyond a Boundary
Beyond a Boundary (1963)

“The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental.”

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Quelle: The Black Jacobins (1938), p. 283.

“It is an historical commonplace that social explosions take place when most of the fundamental causes of dissatisfaction have been removed and only a few remain. This is the result of a feeling of power.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Quelle: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 229

“Cricket is an art, not a bastard or a poor relation, but a full member of the community. (…) Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belong with the theatre, ballet, opera and dance.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Quelle: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 196

“Dickens saw Victorian England always with the eyres of a pre-Victorian. His ideal England was the England of Hazlitt and of Pickwick.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Quelle: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 161

“The Greeks believed that an athlete who had represented his community at a national competition, and won, had thereby conferred a notable distinction on his city. His victory was a testament to the quality of the citizens. All the magnates of the city welcomed him home in civic procession. They broke down a part of the wall for him to enter: a city which could produce such citizens had no need of walls to defend it. For the rest of his life he ate at the public expense.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Quelle: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 156

“I could, of course, wait for the Conservative Party or the Labour Party to organise a sample poll. A poll on art. A sample poll! A sample poll can investigate only what the pollsters know, and it cannot do even that properly.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Quelle: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 153-154

“Trotsky had said that the workers were deflected from politics by sports. With my past I simply could not accept that. I was British and the history of those decades in Britain was very familiar to me, both the politics and the sport. The organisational drive for sport had come from Britain.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Quelle: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 153

“The people most affected by this are people of the middle class who, lacking the hard contact with realities of the masses and unable to attain to the freedoms of a leisured class, are more than all types of people given to trivial divisions and subdivisions of social rank and precedence.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Quelle: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 52

“These are no random reminiscences. … The Negroid population of the West Indies is composed of a large percentage of actually black people. … Then there are the browns, intermediates, who cannot by any stretch of imagination pass as white, but who will not go one inch towards mixing with people darker than themselves.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Quelle: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 51

“Before very long I acquired a discipline for which the only name is Puritan. I never cheated, I never appealed for a decision unless I thought the batsman was out.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Quelle: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 26

“Respectability was not an ideal, it was an armour.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Quelle: Beyond a Boundary (1963), p. 8

“That James could not accept automatically that these athletes were the greedy spawn of an exploitative system is the positive proof of his own liberation and oppression through sports. He was ennobled and crippled by cricket; he reached beyond his boundary but would always have a blind spot.”

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C. L. R. James buch Beyond a Boundary

Introduction by Robert Lipsyte (p. XX)
Beyond a Boundary (1963)

“The cruelties of property and privilege are always more ferocious than the revenges of poverty and oppression. For the one aims at perpetuating resented injustice, the other is merely a momentary passion soon appeased.”

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Quelle: The Black Jacobins (1938), pp. 88-89.

“Christopher Columbus landed first in the New World at the island of San Salvador, and after praising God enquired urgently for gold.”

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Quelle: The Black Jacobins (1938), p. 3.

“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.”

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State Capitalism and World Revolution (1950)

“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.”

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State Capitalism and World Revolution (1950)

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