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
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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.