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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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 (...) -
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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C L R James, Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
15 January 2010C 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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...) -
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 (...)