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 (...)
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C L R James, World Revolution 1917-1936 The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
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CLR James sur la Commune de Paris
10 juin 2023, par Robert Paris« Ils ont montré la voie de l’émancipation ouvrière » CLR James
La classe ouvrière américaine n’est pas encore aussi familière que la classe ouvrière européenne avec l’histoire et les traditions du mouvement socialiste révolutionnaire. Le 14 mars, anniversaire de la mort de Karl Marx, et le 18 mars, anniversaire de la Commune de Paris ne seront célébrés que par une petite minorité.
Les travailleurs américains et l’héritage de Marx
Alors que la crise internationale s’approfondit, le (...) -
La place de Trotsky dans l’histoire
17 novembre 2023, par Robert ParisC.L .R. James -
La place de Trotsky dans l’histoire
(septembre 1940)
Avertissement : il s’agit d’une traduction plus que sommaire
Ici le texte en anglais :
https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1940/09/trotsky-history.htm
La bourgeoisie, forcément dépourvue de méthode historique et soumettant tous les aspects de la vie à la nécessité du maintien de son pouvoir, s’est non seulement méprise sur le prolétariat, mais est également trompée dans l’estimation de ce qui (...) -
Marcus Garvey by C.L.R. James
4 January 2013, by Robert ParisRead here
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Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
16 December 2021, by Robert ParisC.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 (...) -
C L R James, World Revolution 1917-1936, The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
30 January 2010see attached document
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LENIN AND SOCIALISM
23 June 2022, by Robert ParisC.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 (...) -
A FOURTH INTERNATIONAL, THE ONLY HOPE
9 January, by Robert ParisC.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 (...) -
STALIN KILLS THE 1923 REVOLUTION
19 décembre 2021, par Robert ParisSTALIN KILLS THE 1923 REVOLUTION
THE GERMAN REVOLUTION WAS FOR YEARS THE MOST urgent and important for the Communist International. In the war Germany lost over one and a quarter million men killed and four and a quarter million wounded. The allied bourgeoisie blockaded Germany for nine months after the war so that a million children died ; (meanwhile they called on God and man to witness how the wicked Bolsheviks were shooting thousands of good Russian bourgeois). Germany lost 100,000 (...) -
Writings of C.L.R. James
13 May 2012, by Robert ParisRead here