C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R. James 1939-1949 (Revolutionary Studies) - Softcover

C.L.R. James (Edited By Scott McLemee And Paul Le Blanc)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0391038249 ISBN 13: 9780391038240

Publisher: Humanities Press International, 1994

Synopsis

C. L. R. James (1901-1989), a prominent black Trinidadian intellectual, has been increasingly recognized as a social critic, historian, and cultural commentator of central importance. During the late 1930s and 1940s, James played a key role in the revolutionary socialist current associated with Leon Trotsky. This volume provides an in-depth look at James's "Trotskyist years," presenting writings by James on Trotsky's life and work that are unavailable in other collections.The volume also includes essays by James on the work of Edmund Wilson and Richard Wright, on the impact of European colonialism on Africa, on the interrelationship between U.S. and international labor history, and on African-American history.Substantial essays by the editors, as well as by Paul Buhle, John Bracey, Martin Glaberman, and Charles van Gelderen, contextualize the actual contributions by James himself, which form the heart of the book.

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About the Author

Scott McLemee is the editor of C.L.R. James and "the Negro Question." He writes the weekly column "Intellectual Affairs" for Inside Higher Ed and serves on the editorial board of New Politics.

Paul Le Blanc is a professor of History at La Roche College, has written on and participated in the U.S. labor, radical and civil rights movements, and is author of such books as Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience, and Lenin and the Revolutionary Party.

Edition details

• Publisher: Humanities Press International
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0391038249
• ISBN 13: 9780391038240
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252