C. L. R. James

"It seemed like a classic ploy by the conquerors: games, particularly so restrained and ritualistic a game as cricket, could be imposed upon the colonies to tame them, to herd them into the psychic bou…"

"On the surface it appeared that the Stalinist intervention was to defend the materialism of Marx against the idealism of Hegel. In reality the theoretical threat came from the revolutionary dialectica…"

"In France, philosophers, historians, scientists, and writers are active protagonists in heated debates over humanism ; which of the three is the heir to Hegel? Often intellectuals turn toward Marx and…"

"Rationalism is the philosophy of bourgeois political economy. It is materialist and not idealist in so far as it combats superstition, seeks to expand the productive forces and increase the sum total …"

"The philosophy of Stalinism is the philosophy of the elite, the bureaucracy, the organizers, the leaders, clothed in Marxist terminology. It is the extreme, the historical limit of the rationalism of …"

"All previous distinctions, politics and economics, war and peace, agitation and propaganda, party and mass, the individual and society, national, civil and imperialist war, single country and one worl…"

"Today, from end to end of the world, men know that democracy is bankrupt. What is to take its place they do not know. The alternative seems to be planned economy and one-party state. This is the philo…"

"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."