C.L.R. James
Mike Weaver
mikeweaver at gn.apc.org
Sun Aug 5 05:21:46 CDT 2001
>I recall having occasion to mention C.L.R. James
>(author of The Black Jacobins et al.) here before,
>wonder if anyone's much familiar with him ...
His Notes on Dialectics used to be one of my regular intellectual
challenges. The original version was written to explain his split with
Trotsky in 1938, using an examination of Hegel's writings to show that
Stalin's ascendancy over Trotsky was because he had a grasp of the
dialectic that Leon never had. I never found the mental energy to
understand the whole book, but what I did take in had a profound effect on
my political perspective.
There was a review in yesterday's Manchester Guardian of a new book on
James - Cricket, the Caribbean and World Revolution. The reviewer's
comments suggested that going to source would be more rewarding.
I've a good collection of essays on James:
C.L.R. James, His life and works. edited by Paul Buhle. Publ: Allison and
Busby 1986
Cheers
Mike
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