Ideologies / Trotskyist / C. L. R. James
§ The minds · 1901–1989 · Trinidad / UK · Historian & theorist
C. L. R. James
The Black Jacobins
Revolution, anti-colonialism, cricket.
Economic−90
SocialistMarket
Governance+46
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+70
TraditionalProgressive
The Trinidadian Marxist whose 'The Black Jacobins' recovered the Haitian Revolution, fusing Trotskyism with pan-African and anti-colonial liberation.
social
Pan-Africanist, anti-colonial, expansively cultural.
economic
Workers' self-emancipation beyond both capital and the party-state.
governance
Revolutionary who grew wary of the vanguard's bureaucracy.
Notable for
- 'The Black Jacobins'
- Pan-African Trotskyism
- 'Beyond a Boundary'
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