“The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.”
Quote by C. L. R. James
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C. L. R. James
C. L. R. James, born on January 4, 1901, and died on May 19, 1989, was a Trinidadian-born British journalist, historian, writer, and socialist. He is renowned for his research on the history of the Caribbean region and his contributions to socialist thought. more
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