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TEXTS ON THE MARXISTS
INTERNET ARCHIVE
by C.L.R. James
Dialectical Materialism and the Fate of Humanity
Every Cook can Govern: A Study of Democracy in Ancient Greece
From the Master-Slave Dialectic to Revolt in Capitalist Production (extract from a polemic against the IKD, 1946): Excerpt from "Historical Retrogression or Socialist Revolution" (Part I) (The New International, January 1946) 2 pp.
The Historical Development of the Negro in the United States
Interview with British Trotskyists
Letter on the Nature of the Russian Economy
Negroes and Bolshevism: A column under the rubric "One-Tenth of the Nation" (Labor Action (New York), 7 April 1947) 1 p.
Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx, Lenin (London: Allison & Busby, 1980) approx. 47 pp.
They Showed the Way to Labor Emancipation: On Karl Marx and the 75th Anniversary of the Paris Commune (Labor Action (New York), 18 March 1946) 4 pp.
On the Woman Question (panel discussion)
Ramchand, Kenneth: Extract from Transcript of Interviews with CLR James (Port of Spain, Banyan Archive, 5 Sept 1980) 12 pp. Interview conducted at the OWTU Guest House, San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago. The original text in the Banyan Archive includes a color photo of James.
Resolution on the Russian Question (19 Sep 1941) 12 pp.
The Revolutionary Answer to the Negro Problem in the USA
The Right of Self-Determination and the Negro in the United States of North Americas [sic] (New York Convention Resolutions) (Socialist Workers Party, 1938) 3 pp.
Socialism and the National Question
State Capitalism and World Revolution, Chapter XI, Philosophy and State Capitalism
The SWP and Negro Work (New York Convention Resolutions) (Socialist Appeal, 11 July 1939) 3 pp.
World Revolution 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International, with new introduction by Al Richardson (orig. 1937; repub. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1993 (Revolutionary Studies)) xxvi, 446 pp.
Mao Perverts Lenin: Excerpt from Marxism and Freedom (New York: Columbia University Press, 1989) 3 pp.
On C.L.R. James’ Notes on Dialectics
Philosophy and Revolution (excerpts)
and many more: Raya Dunayevskaya Archive
about C.L.R. James & the Johnson-Forest Tendency
Grimshaw, Anna. C.L.R. James: A Revolutionary Vision for the 20th Century.
van Heijenoort, Jean. "On Some Critics of Trotsky".
OTHER TEXTS BY C.L.R. JAMES
CLR James and British Trotskyism. An interview given by CLR JAMES to AL RICHARDSON, CLARENCE CHRYSOSTOM & ANNA GRIMSHAW on Sunday 8th June & 16th November 1986 in South London. Edited by Ted Crawford, Barry Buitekant & Al Richardson.
ENDPAGE: Several texts by C.L.R. James (most, perhaps all, available elsewhere).
Extract From Transcript of Interviews with CLR James. OWTU Guest House, San Fernando, Trinidad & Tobago; September 5th, 1980.
Notes on Dialectics: PART II: The Hegelian Logic: Appearance and Actuality. Athenaeum Reading Room.
Thoughts of C.L.R. James: Interview with Knolly Moses, Brixton, Dec. 1986
The Property: Extract from Black Jacobins
On Workers' Culture (CLR James, Red & Black Notes #3, from an unsigned editorial in Correspondence, December 12 1953 )
TEXTS CONCERNING C.L.R. JAMES & HIS CIRCLES
Anderson, Andrew. The Johnson-Forest Tendency in the US (20 Nov 1998) 5 pp.
Barnfield, Graham. "Marx's Old Batsman Bowled Out", review of Anthony Bogues, Caliban's Freedom: The Early Political Thought of C.L.R. James, & Aidan Campbell, Western Primitivism: African Ethnicity: A Study in Cultural Relations. Times Higher Educational Supplement, 30 January 1998, London, no. 1317, p. 31. [Note: one must sign up for free 14-day trial subscription in order to access the article.]
British Trotskyism in the 1930s: supplementary documents not included in John Archer's printed article on James in Revolutionary History. Click on "Material for a Study of British Trotskyism" in left-hand frame. Or, go directly to this section of the mirror site at Marxists Internet Archive.
Buhle, Paul. "The Neglected C.L.R. James", Monthly Review, vol. 52, no. 5, October 2000.
Camfield, David. Socialism from Below: C.L.R. James . New Socialist Magazine, Issue 3 (Volume 1, Issue 3), May - June 1996. [Click from contents page.]
CLR James (1901 - 1989) Philosopher & Political Activist, Black Britannica.
Diawara, Manthia. Englishness and Blackness: Cricket as Discourse on Colonialism. 1990.
Dorn, Paul. A Controversial Caribbean: C.L.R. James (Spring 1995) 6 pp. Paper for San Francisco Art Institute course, "Caribbean Literature" (Spring 1995)
Dumain, Ralph. 100 Years of C.L.R. James. 4 January 2001. With links.
Dumain, Ralph. C.L.R. James & American Culture: Addendum (5 February 1994), with "C.L.R. James kaj Usona Kulturo" (19 April 1992).
Dunayevskaya, Raya. On C.L.R. James' Notes on Dialectics.
Engel, Matthew. "Quixote at the Wicket", The Guardian, Saturday August 4, 2001.
Glaberman, Martin. The Revolutionary Optimist: Remembering C.L.R. James [review of C.L.R. James, A Political Biography by Kent Worcester] (Against the Current)
Girvan, Norman. "Remembering C.L.R. James". 8 May 2000.
Goldner, Loren. Facing Reality 45 Years Later: Critical Dialogue With CLR James/Grace Lee/Pierre Chaulieu (2002).
Gordon, Lewis R. Review: Caliban’s Freedom: The Early Political Thought of C.L.R. James, APA Newsletter on Philosophy, Law, and the Black Experience, Volume 98, Number 2 (Spring, 1999).
Grimshaw, Anna. "CLR James (1901-1989)" [obituary], Revolutionary History, Vol. 2, No. 3, Autumn 1989. Look up issue in "back issues" list on Revolutionary History site, or find article directly on mirror site, which is part of the Marxists Internet Archive.
Gwisdalla, Sarah. C.L.R. James and Universal Struggle, The South End [Wayne State University], February 14, 2001.
Hamilton, Cynthia. A Way of Seeing: Culture as Political Expression in the Works of C.L.R. James.
Hector, Leonard Tim. "CLR James and the 21st Century", Fan the Flame, December 31, 1999.
Hector, Leonard Tim. "Definitive Biography of CLR Urgently Required", Fan the Flame, June 21, 2002.
Hirson, Baruch. "Communalism and Socialism in Africa: The Misdirection of C.L.R . James", Searchlight South Africa, vol 1, no. 4 [4], Feb. 1990, pp.64-73.
Interview with Rosa Guy. 27 April 1990.
Johnson, Kim. CLR James sends us his 'Letters from London'. December 31, 2002.
Johnson, Kim. Ladies Man Who Lost His Love: CLR James, trinicenter.com (14:02:96); also at Race and History.
Keenaghan, Eric. "His Eyes Almost Fell through the Crease": Using Voyeurism and Sexuality to Ascertain the Modernist Attributes of C.L.R. James's Minty Alley.
Lawrence, Ken. "Padmore and CLR James", February 1999.
Le Blanc, Paul. Challenges of a Black Revolutionary: The Marxism of C.L.R. James.
Malik, Kenan. "All Cultures Are Not Equal", spiked-online, May 2002.
Malik, Kenan. Farrukh Dhondy, CLR James (review), New Statesman, 30 July 2001.
Marx, Karl. "Science, Society, and Life": Extract from "Private Property and Communism" from Essays by Karl Marx Selected from the Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts, translated by Ria Stone [pseudonym of Grace Lee Boggs] (New York: Martin Harvey, 7 August 1947), pp. 22-23. Two additional translations of same passage included. Note: This pamphlet published by the Johnson-Forest Tendency was the first published English translation of any of Marx's 1844 manuscripts.
McLemee, Scott. C.L.R. James: A Biographical Introduction.
Metcalf, Eric. Review, American Civilization & Rethinking C.L.R. James. Zona Latina, 11/10/97.
Political Discourse: Theories of Colonialism & Postcolonialism: C.L.R. James. Several texts.
Red & Black Notes. The Legacy of CLR James [discussion of Facing Reality] (Red & Black Notes #15)
Rennie, Bukka. The Enduring Message of CLR James, trinicenter.com; also Bukka Rennie Archives, 29 January 2001.
Rennie, Bukka. "Too Much, Too Soon!". Bukka Rennie Archives, 18 September 2000.
Richardson, Al. Introduction to World Revolution 1917-1936 by CLR James (Humanities Press, 1993).
Richardson, Boyce. "A third biography of the great West Indian writer C.L.R. James, with whom I shared a day at the Oval in London in the 1960s", August 18, 2001.
Rie, Jaeryong. Post-Communist Polish Economic Reform: A Class Analysis (Dissertation Proposal) (1997) 36 pp. [E-mail author]
Rosengarten, Frank. "Antonio Gramsci and C.L.R. James: Some Parallels and Similarities." August 2002. Also article in International Gramsci Society Newsletter, no. 13, May 2003 in PDF format.
Worcester, Kenton W. C.L.R. James, Mid-Century Marxism, and the Popular Arts.
World Revolution: 2 contemporary reviews (1937).
Yee, Danny. Beyond a Boundary (review), 1998.
Young, James D. The World of C. L. R. James, 1901 - 1989.
OTHER TEXTS OF RELATED INTEREST
Bove, Paul A. Notes Towards a Politics of "American" Criticism
Diawara, Manthia. Pan-Africanism and Pedagogy, 1996.
Dumain, Ralph. FEEDBACK: Melville the "Atheist".
Dumain, Ralph. "Hegel, Marx, Goldner, C.L.R. James, Enlightenment and the Philosophical Dichotomies". 2003.
Dumain, Ralph. Herman Melville's Moby Dick & the Contradictions of Modernity.
Goldner, Loren. Race and the Enlightenment, Part II: The Anglo-French Enlightenment and Beyond. From Race Traitor #10, 1998.
Goldner, Loren. Race, Class and the Crisis of the Bourgeois Ego in the Work of Herman Melville.
Harrison, Greg. The Dialectics and Aesthetics of Freedom: Hegel, Slavery, and African American Music. PhD dissertation. Dept. of Art History, University of Sydney, March 1999, iv + 463 pp. Introduction by Ralph Dumain in web edition only.
James, Selma. Sex, Race and Class (1973).
Matibag, Eugenio D. Self-Consuming Fictions: The Dialectics of Cannibalism in Modern Caribbean Narratives, Postmodern Culture, Volume 1, Number 3, May 1991.
McCarthy, Cameron. "The Palace of the Peacock: Wilson Harris and the Curriculum in Troubled Times". Public Seminar/Occasional Paper presented to The Curriculum and Pedagogy Institute of the University of Alberta, Summer 1998.
McLemee, Scott. "Making the Cut", The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 4, 2001, p. A16.
Murphy, Geraldine. Ahab as Capitalist, Ahab as Communist: Revising Moby Dick for the Cold War (1998) 14 pp.
Pearlstien, Edward W. "Pocahontas" in 3 Intellectual Plays: Jack Ruby, Mariana Alcoforado, Pocahontas, illustrations by Todd Crawshaw (San Francisco: Editorial Consultants, Inc., 1979), pp. 137-146.
Roberts, Neil. The Concept of Freedom in Ras Political Thought. October 13, 2003.
Roberts, Neil. "Walter Rodney's Heresy."
Shapiro, Gary. "Oh, To Freely Pursue the Scholarly Life!", The New York Sun, Oct. 15, 2004, "Knickerbocker" column, p. 16. Mentions R. Dumain and C.L.R. James.
Smith, Jim. "Part of Our History" [Review article: The Fate of the Russian Revolution: Lost Texts of Critical Marxism Vol. 1. Articles by Max Shachtman, Hal Draper, CLR James, Al Glotzer, Joseph Carter, Leon Trotsky and others; Edited by Sean Matgamna. (London: Phoenix Press, 1998)], International Socialist Forum No. 4 .
Socialisme Ou Barbarie texts.
Sojourner Truth Organization. "Marxist Education" and "How to Think: A Guide to the Study of Dialectical Materialism", Urgent Tasks, no 7, winter 1980, pp. 18-19, 19-29.
Taylor, Nathelie. "Life - a matter of trial and error" [review of: The Autobiography of Alfred H. Mendes, 1897-1991, Michèle Levy (ed.) (UWI, 2002)], The Weekend Star, 28 November 2003, p. 41.
Tippett and the Trotskyist Movement, on the 1930s British Trotskyist movement.
Turner, Terisa E. "Women's Uprisings Against the Nigerian Oil Industry in the 1980s", chapter of Counterplanning From the Commons: African Women, Democracy and the Defence of the Life Ground, with Craig Benjamin, Leigh Brownhill and Wahu Kaara. 1999.
Wald, Alan. Reviewing Red: Women's Lives on the Left. Includes review of Not Without Love: Memoirs by Constance Webb.
ACTIVITIES OF THE C.L.R. JAMES INSTITUTE
Institutions affiliated with The C.L.R. James Institute
African Studies Centre, University of Cambridge
Conferences, symposia, etc.
Mariners at 50: A Symposium (on Dartmouth College site)
WEB SITES OF RELATED INTEREST
Archives
The Banyan Archive (Port of Spain, Banyan, 1996)
Center for Socialist History (Hal Draper & Workers Party)
Institute
of Commonwealth Studies: Archives and Special Collections - an overview of the
holdings
Click here for summary of James holdings (on C.L.R. James
Institute site)
Jock Haston (1913-1986) Archives (British Trotskyism)
Research Institute for the Study of Man
Tamiment Institute Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Several collections of relevance including American Trotskyist collections and oral history. See also Guide to the Max Shachtman Papers 1917-1969.
Texas Archives of Autonomist Marxism
Walter P. Reuther Library, Wayne State University (Includes Glaberman & Boggs archives)
Other libraries & general & specialized resources
New Pages: "News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more."
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
VICS: The Virtual Institute of Caribbean Studies
People & movements related to C.L.R. James
AUT-OP-SY Home Page: Autonomist Marxism (Franco Barchiesi & Steve Wright)
The Guyana and Caribbean Political and Cultural Center for Popular Education
James & Grace Lee Boggs Center
Martin Glaberman Archive (Red & Black Notes)
We Remember Marty... (Memorial tribute to Martin Glaberman)
Bewick Editions (Publishing house of Martin Glaberman)
Revolutionary History (Trotskyism). Has James material. See also mirror at Marxists Internet Archive, which also includes James material.
Cornelius Castoriadis / Agora International Website
ALPHONSO THEODORE ROBERTS By Errol G. King, MD (2 October 2002).
Institutions Honoring C.L.R. James
The C. L. R. James/Malcolm X Award
Journals of Related Interest
Small Axe: A Journal of Criticism
Scholars with James or James-related projects
Cameron McCarthy, announcement of his appointment as a fellow of the C.L.R. James Institute, in Inside Illinois, Volume 19, Number 19, April 20, 2000, "Achievements".
Radicals Against Race: Black Activism and Cultural Politics by Brian W. Alleyne
Ralph Dumain: The Autodidact Project
Jim Murray (April 10, 1949 - July 21, 2003), Director, The C.L.R. James Institute
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Hudson, Alan. alt.culture.cricket: Only a Game, Living Marxism, no. 109, April 1998.
Worcester, Kent. "The Real C.L.R. James" [review of The World of C.L.R. James: His Unfragmented Vision, by James D. Young, Clydeside Press], Workers' Liberty, no. 68, January 2001.
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