Of C.L.R. James

Writing about, inspired by, and tangentially related to the work of the great Trinidadian Marxist

Sunday, November 6, 2016

Election Fatigue / Politics Fatigue

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Election fatigue. It’s a thing people enjoy jokingly discussing as the election winds down: the ways that we’ve been made to suffer throug...
Friday, June 3, 2016

On Eggs and Political Violence

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The most commonly cited aspect of Weber’s definition of the state is that it possesses a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. The acce...
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Thursday, December 3, 2015

Thoughts and Prayers and the Terror of Politics

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“Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels’ orders?” I always think about the first line of Rilke’s first elegy when I think...
Tuesday, October 27, 2015

The School as Prison (no pipeline required)

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Friends, a proposal: Let's stop using the phrase "school-to-prison pipeline." It's misleading. When going to school ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2015

The Civil War and Farcical Politics

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Well, it happened: We got Bill Kristol to quote Marx. He writes It's our own mini-French Revolution, expunging history in a fren...
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My name is Chris Taylor. I'm an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago. I write about CLR James, black radicalism, Marxism, anarchism, and so on.
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