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 (...)
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Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
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Writings of C.L.R. James
13 May 2012, by Robert ParisRead here
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The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
29 December 2021, by Robert ParisC.L.R. James
The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
(July 1939)
Source: SWP New York Convention Resolutions, 11 July 1939. Proofreading: Einde O’Callaghan (March 2016).
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 (...) -
Stalinism and Fascism
26 December 2021, by Robert ParisC.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 (...)