CLR James

CLR James in conversation with Stuart Hall, 1984(?).

Mariners, Renegades and Castaway: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We Live In.


Studs Terkel Radio Archive.


Striving for Clarity and Influence: The Political Legacy of CLR James, Selma James.

For me …, CLR created two masterworks … One of them was The Black Jacobins

The second masterwork was the Johnson-Forest Tendency which aimed to create another kind of Marxist organization.

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The study of Marx and Lenin and of Hegel had led to uncovering a reading of Marx where the revolution was dependent on the self-activity of the working class, not on the leadership of a vanguard party.


C.L.R. James and the Fate of Marxism, Cornelius Castoriadis. More at libcom.