C. L. R. James

Articles

• STALIN RUINS THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
  19 December 2021

  C.L.LR. James
  STALIN RUINS THE CHINESE REVOLUTION
  EVEN WHILE THE STALINISTS, BY FALSIFICATION AND PHYSICAL repression, were destroying the propagandists of international Socialism, the world revolution which had seemed so remote in October, 1924, stirred itself, and even while the new theory was being made law presented the International with one of its greatest opportunities. We have to pass over how the Stalinists forced the Communist Party of Poland to support Pilsudski in the coup (...)

• LENIN AND SOCIALISM
  26 December 2021

  C.L.R. James
  LENIN AND SOCIALISM
  THOUGH BEFORE VERY LONG THE SOVIET UNION WAS TO be the only Workers’ State in the world, the international Socialist revolution had begun. As time passed and the isolation of the Soviet Union became clear, it might have been thought that the dictatorship of the proletariat in Russia enforced by the situation inside the country was premature. Difficult and dangerous as was its position, liable to collapse at any time, yet the Soviet Union fitted into the (...)

• C.L.R. James August The Voice of Africa
  19 June 2022

  Facing Mount Kenya
  by Jomo Kenyatta, with an introduction by B. Malinowski
  Secker & Warburg. 12/6.
  If ever there was a book that students of Africa needed, this is it. The book describes an African people, the Gikuyu, as they were forty years ago just before British imperialism descended on them. Similar books have been written before? Yes; but by white men chiefly, of varying intelligence and honesty. But even the best, like the late Emil Torday, wrote from the outside. Mr. Jomo (...)

• Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  4 December 2021

  C.L.R. James 1947
  Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
  Mankind has obviously reached the end of something. The crisis is absolute. Bourgeois civilisation is falling apart, and even while it collapses, devotes its main energies to the preparation of further holocausts. Not remote states on the periphery but regimes contending for world power achieve the most advanced stages of barbarism known to history. What civilised states have ever approached Nazi Germany and Stalinist (...)

• CLR JAMES AND THE NEGRO MOVEMENT IN THE USA
  22 March 2009

  C L R James 1939 The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
  Source: SWP New York Convention Resolutions, 11 July 1939.
  In 1930 Negroes in America constituted nearly twelve million, or 10 percent of the American population. Of these, two-thirds were still in the South, despite the war and postwar emigration to the North. In the cities of the North and East, the Negroes form only a small minority of the population, generally less than 10 percent. (...)

• C L R James, World Revolution 1917-1936 The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
  7 March 2009

  Chapter 1 MARXISM
  WHAT THEN IS SOCIALISM ACCORDING TO THE PROPHETS? To answer this question we have to look back and not forward, at the origin of Socialism in the scientific sense, placing it in the particular phase of social evolution to which it belongs. For though it is to be attained by the will and energy of men, it will not be attained how and when men please. It is neither pious hope nor moral aspiration but a new form of society which will arise for one reason and one only, the (...)

• Stalinism and Fascism
  21 December 2021

  C.L.R. James
  “AFTER HITLER, OUR TURN”
  THE INTERNATIONAL PURGED
  AS THE STALINIST REGIME DESTROYED THE BOLSHEVIK party by slander and organisational terror (not against class-enemies, it must always be remembered, which all history proves to be necessary, inevitable and not in the least confined to Communists, but against honest, intelligent and devoted members of its own ranks), so it automatically transferred these methods to the International. [1]
  With the final expulsion of the (...)

• Trotsky’s Place In History
  18 January 2022

  Trotsky’s Place In History, By C.L.R. James
  THE bourgeoisie, perforce lacking historical method and suborning all aspects of life to the maintenance of power, has not only confused the proletariat but has confused itself in the estimation of what constitutes greatness in contemporary men. Woodrow Wilson, Poincaré, Stanley Baldwin and similar mediocrities have all been crowned with the laurel, not excluding Nicholas Murray Butler, on the score presumably that he had dined often with the (...)

• 1917-1923, A World Revolution
  5 May 2017, by Robert Paris

  World Revolution – 1917/1923
  A chronology of the european revolution (1917-1923)
  Lenin – « The State and Revolution »
  Leon Trotsky – History of The Russian Revolution
  Herman Gorter – The World Revolution
  C. L. R. James – “World Revolution 1917-1936”
  Réponse de Léon Trotsky à James
  C. L. R. James – “State Capitalism and Worls Revolution”
  Leon Trotsky – “The Betrayed Revolution”
  Leon Trotsky – « The Permanent Revolution »
  Leon Trotsky – “Our Revolution”
  Leon Trotsky (...)

• Notes sur la dialectique
  27 juillet, par Robert Paris

  C.L.R. James - Notes sur la dialectique
  « Chacune des trois sphères de l’idée logique s’avère être un ensemble systématique de termes de pensée et une phase de l’Absolu. C’est le cas de l’Être, contenant les trois degrés de qualité, quantité et mesure.
  La qualité est d’abord le caractère identique à l’être : si identique qu’une chose cesse d’être ce qu’elle est, si elle perd sa qualité. La quantité, au contraire, est le caractère extérieur à l’être, et n’affecte pas du tout l’être. (...)