p. 52
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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.
— C. L. R. James
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Source: Wikiquote: "C. L. R. James" (Quotes, Beyond a Boundary (1963): Page numbers from Duke University Press reprint, 2013)
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About C. L. R. James
Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 19 May 1989) was a Trinidadian-born anti-colonial Marxist activist and writer.
About C. L. R. James
Cyril Lionel Robert James (4 January 1901 – 19 May 1989) was a Trinidadian-born anti-colonial Marxist activist and writer.
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