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9 | C.L.R. James: Leadership, Organization, Mass Politics (with Dr. William Clare Roberts)

What's Left of Philosophy

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I Think That's a Part of De Boys's Work on the Black Struggle in the u.s.

I liked the way that you articulated this in your article, where you say that for james, the sort of cision is between allying with the international proletariat or by making compromises. And those are like the only two paths available for class struggler, for solidarity and collective action. That there's no form of refusing full scale internationalism that doesn't amount toa tionism with your own national bourgeoisie. I wonder if it's him, like you, trying to push back a sort of counter tendency of making it almost impossible that any sort of a re lutionary struggle could come about. Is that yo baby, partlike the literary end of what he's doing here?

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