[lbo-talk] Meditations on Trotsky and Occupy_2

Angelus Novus fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com
Thu Sep 27 14:23:52 PDT 2012


Chuck Grimes wrote:


> Off hand, about the only thing
close was Malcome X and Che Guevarra, but they didn't have the scope and deeper implicit intellectual background that Trotsky
> could command.

Ever read _The Black Jacobins_ by CLR James?  I'd put it up with all of that stuff in terms of masterpieces of radical non-fiction.  James is one of the towering figures of English-language Marxism, and his tendency was one of the few that attempted to adapt a Marxist perspective to the history, culture, and realities of North America, rather than merely upholding a staid pantheon of bearded Europeans.



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