Communalism and Socialism in Africa
The Misdirection of C.L.R . James
Hirson, Baruch
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/hirson/1989/clr-james.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/hirson/1989/clr-james.htm
Publisher: Revolutionary History
Year Published: 1989
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX10687
The theoretical confusion of the left when confronted with class struggles in backward societies goes back to the polemics in Russia before the revolution of 1917: an issue resolved in practice but leaving a legacy of theoretical confusion. The struggles for colonial independence were denied the insights that Marxism should have offered, Instead, mysticism prevailed and populist theories replaced scientific analysis.
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