Facing reality - CLR James and Grace Lee Boggs
Writing in collaboration with Cornelius Castoriadis and Grace Lee, James examines the practical process of social revolution in the modern world.
"Springing forth from the utopian flames of self-emancipation kindled by the workers councils of the Hungarian Revolution, this pivotal book offers a socialist indictment of the miserabilism of state capitalism and calls for the ongoing rejection of both vanguardism and the bureaucratic rationalism of state power." - Ron Sakolsky, author of Creating Anarchy
Radical America #04.04: CLR James
CLR James issue of Radical America, a left wing magazine established by members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Vol. IV, No. 4 MBV. 1970
Introduction by Martin Glaberman
PHILOSOPHY AND MODERN SOCIETY
Excerpt from Modern Politics (1960) ............ 3
AMERICAN SOCIETY
The Revolutionary Solution to the Negro Problem
in the United States (1947) ................ 12
Excerpt from State Capitalism & World
Revolution (1949) ..................... 19
The Legacy of CLR James - Red and Black Notes
The following article was written for an on-line discussion of CLR James' book Facing Reality. It was been edited for publication by Red and Black Notes, and is republished here.
When Martin Glaberman died in Detroit last year, it was in many ways the end of a tradition. Marty often referred to himself as an "unreconstructed Johnsonite" and given that James died some 12 years previously, he could reasonably claim to be the last survivor of the tradition.
Review of Living for Change by Grace Lee Boggs - Red and Black Notes
Review of Living For Chang by Grace Lee Boggs.
"If the future is to be lived the past must be understood." With this paraphrase of Kierkegaard, Grace Lee Boggs ends her effort to provide an account of both her own past and that of an American left. For those seeking to make sense of the contradictory and confusing world of left- wing politics in the US over the course of this century, it is often useful to have a guide.
On Workers Culture - CLR James
The following article is an extract from an unsigned editorial in the newspaper Correspondence, December 12 1953. It may have been written by C.L.R. James, who had written an extensive essay on a related theme several weeks earlier. It should be noted that despite the use of the masculine pronoun throughout the article, the Correspondence group were quite sensitive to questions of gender. Thanks to Scott McLemee for providing this material. This article has been archived on libcom.org from the Red and Black Notes website.
Picket lines, wages and hours, union bureaucrats and even the union meetings do not command the lively interest of the workers that they held in the past. Yet from the stories that we get every day from the shops, we can see a new form of struggle emerging. It never seems to be carried to its complete end, yet its existence is continuous.
Free For All: The nine year old leader - C.L.R. James
James discusses a 1981 riot in Manchester, northern England.
Free For All. I love that title. Freedom is a very rare thing: it is for example rare in the account of great events. It was only a few years ago that a French historian really got down to it and brought out some of the greatest and most important events in the French Revolution.
Karl Marx and the Paris Commune - CLR James
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From 18 March 1946 issue of Labor Action, newspaper of the Workers Party of the United States
C.L.R. James
They Showed the Way to Labor Emancipation:
On Karl Marx and the 75th Anniversary of the Paris Commune
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The American working class is not yet as familiar as the European working class with the history and traditions of the revolutionary socialist movement. March 14, anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, and March 18, anniversary of the Paris Commune will be celebrated by only a small minority.
On the Woman Question: An Orientation
C L R James
On the Woman Question:
An Orientation
A discussion held on September third, 1951
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A new stage has been reached. We are finished with endless discussions on male chauvinism. We have no more time for individual attacks against individual men who are backward or against individual women who do not want to be "emancipated". These people will reorient themselves and will be drawn into their own struggles.
State capitalism and world revolution - CLR James
Marxist CLR James on state capitalism and revolution.
Johnson-Forest Tendency: Philosophy and State Capitalism
State Capitalism and World Revolution
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Source: State Capitalism and World Revolution, by C.L.R. James in collaboration with Raya Dunayevskaya & Grace Lee; with a new introduction by Paul Buhle. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company, 1986. Chapter XI, pp. 113-135. Original publication: 1950. Note: Asterisks were changed to numbered footnotes for greater clarity.
The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
C L R James
The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
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