The Revolutionary Answer

C.L.R. James (1901-1989) was a novelist, activist, and political theorist who worked with Leon Trotsky, Richard Wright, Cornelius Castoriadis, and Kwame Nkrumah. He wrote the classic history of the Haitian revolution The Black Jacobins, and helped create a network of pan-African organizers. Scott McLemee is the editor of C.L.R. James and "the Negro Question" and co-editor, with Paul Leblanc, of C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism. He writes the weekly column "Intellectual Affairs" for Inside Higher Ed and serves on the editorial board of New Politics.