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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• 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 (…)

• La question nègre par CLR James
  2 mars 2025, par Robert Paris

  La question nègre
  Par CLR James
  1943
  Le développement historique des Nègres dans la société américaine
  L’historique de la question nègre et du mouvement révolutionnaire américain, en général, ainsi que celui du mouvement trotskyste, en particulier, rend actuellement nécessaire l’examen, même bref, du rôle des nègres dans le développement politique de la société américaine.
  En 1776, les masses nègres ne jouaient aucun rôle primordial et la révolution aurait eu le développement (…)

• Les jacobins noirs, CLR James
  7 novembre 2008, par Robert Paris

  Les Jacobins noirs, par C.L.R. James.
  Préface de l’auteur (1938)
  En 1789, les deux tiers du commerce extérieur de la France se faisaient avec sa colonie antillaise de Saint-Domingue, laquelle représentait le plus grand marché de la traite européenne des esclaves. La plus grosse colonie du monde, fierté de la France et objet de convoitise de toutes les autres nations impérialistes, faisait partie intégrante de la vie économique d’alors. Tout cet ensemble reposait sur le labeur d’un (…)

• A FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, THE ONLY HOPE
  29 December 2021

  C.L.R. James
  A FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, THE ONLY HOPE
  THERE IS A LOGIC IN HISTORY AND DESPITE ALL THE rich and strange episodes of historical evolution there is a consistent line which can be followed. We can see the future of the Third International in the role it plays in the Spanish revolution. THE SPANISH REVOLUTION
  When Franco launched his attack on the Popular Front Government, that hybrid showed exactly what is to be expected from these political combinations of bourgeoisie and (…)

• 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 (…)