[lbo-talk] Gramsci, Cricket and Bollywood

Charles Brown cbrown at michiganlegal.org
Sat Sep 9 09:47:03 PDT 2006


Yes, everybody makes mistakes. James is forgiven for his. Raya Dunayevskaya is too. Grace Lee Boggs, third member of the Johnson-Forrest Tendency, is alive and well in her nineties here in Detroit, writes a regular column for the Michigan Citizen.

CB

^^^^^^

Michael Pugliese

Yes, and James on Aptheker is great. http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1949/11/stalinism-negro.htm Stalinism and Negro History

Source: Fourth International, November 1949, Volume 10, No. 10, pp. 309-314; Written: by CLR James under the name of J. Meyer.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1949/12/aptheker.htm Herbert Aptheker's Distortions

Source: Fourth International, December 1949, Volume 10, No. 11, pp. 337-341; Written: by C.L.R. James under the name J. Meyer.


>...However fair may be the outside of Stalinist history and politics,
however skillful may be the means by which its internal corruption is disguised, inevitably its real significance appears. There is no excuse today for those who allow themselves to be deceived by it. For all interested in this sphere, it is a common duty, whatever differences may exist between us, to see to it that the whole Stalinist fakery on Negro history be thoroughly exposed for what it really is.

OUCH.



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