C. L. R. James

Articles

• 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. (…)

• Expliquer en termes simples la doctrine de l’Etre de Hegel
  25 juin 2024, par Robert Paris

  Expliquer en termes simples la doctrine de l’Etre de Hegel
  (Un chapitre de « Notes sur la dialectique » de C.L.R. James)
  Alors que je me propose de commencer « La Logique » de Hegel proprement dite, je ressens un léger frisson.
  Harris, qui a finalement écrit un très bel ouvrage sur la logique hégélienne, était professeur de philosophie et conférencier sur Hegel de seconde main. Brockmeyer, gouverneur du Missouri, a fait une traduction de la « Grande Logique » et quelqu’un l’a donnée à (…)

• 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 (…)

• C L R James, World Revolution 1917-1936, The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
  23 August 2008, by Robert Paris

  THIS BOOK IS AN INTRODUCTION TO AND SURVEY OF THE revolutionary Socialist movement since the War–the antecedents, foundation and development of the Third International–its collapse as a revolutionary force. The Bolshevik Party, and the Soviet Union which it controls, being the dominating factors in the Third International, are given extensive treatment.
  The ideas on which the book are based are the fundamental ideas of Marxism. Since 1923 they have been expounded chiefly by Trotsky and a (…)

• The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas
  16 December 2021

  C.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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• C.L.R. James - Notes sur la dialectique
  20 novembre 2023, par Robert Paris

  C.L.R. James
  Notes sur la dialectique
  La doctrine de l’être
  Avertissement : cette traduction, pleine d’erreurs, donne seulement une petite idée du texte et nécessite de se référer au document d’origine en anglais :
  https://www.matierevolution.fr/spip.php?article1019
  EXERCICES PRÉLIMINAIRES
  Alors que je me propose de commencer « La Logique » de Hegel proprement dite, je ressens un léger frisson.
  Harris, qui a finalement écrit un très bel ouvrage sur la logique hégélienne, était (…)

• 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 (…)