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The first collection of James Boggs' essays, which became seminal
texts for the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement activism of the
1960s James Boggs wrestles with the problems of the specific
character of American capitalism and American democracy, the
historic mission of the black revolution in the United States, and
the need for the 1960s black movement to develop theoretically and
organizationally. This collection of essays includes Bogg's
remarkable The City Is the Black Man's Land, an article
anticipating the black nationalist programs that were to emerge in
the later 1960s. Boggs hails the coming of what was at the time the
new slogan of the black revolution with an essay called, Black
Power: A Scientific Concept Whose Time Has Come. In further essays,
he hammers at his theme of the second civil war and black control
of the cities. In his concluding piece, written especially for this
book, Boggs evaluates and analyzes the movement of the late 1960s
and its various groups.
This book provides a concise and instructive review of the
revolutions of the twentieth century, with separate chapters on the
Russian, Chinese, Guinea-Bissau, and Vietnamese revolutions, in
which the authors seek to extract the principle lessons from each
of these struggles and the special course taken by each. In these
and in a summary chapter on the dialectics of revolution the
authors furnish a picture of the principal aspects of Marxism,
Leninism, Maoism, and the other currents of Marxism active in the
revolutions of our times. A second section is devoted to the United
States, and begins with a survey of the class forces in American
history from the settlement of the original thirteen colonies to
the present, with special attention to the enslaved black
population. Thereafter, the authors present their ideas on the
objects and means of an American Revolution.Includes new
introduction by Grace Lee Boggs.
James Boggs, born in Marion Junction, Alabama in 1919, never
dreamed of becoming President or a locomotive engineer. He grew up
in a world where the white folks are gentlemen by day and Ku Klux
Klanners at night. Marion Junction is in Dallas County where as
late as 1963, although African-Americans made up over 57 percent of
the total county population of 57,000, only 130 were registered
voters. After graduating from Dunbar High School in Bessemer,
Alabama, in 1937, Boggs took the first freight train north, bumming
his way through the western part of the country, working in the hop
fields of the state of Washington, cutting ice in Minnesota, and
finally ending up in Detroit where he worked on WPA until the
Second World War gave him a chance to enter the Chrysler auto
plant. Both a keen analysis of U.S. society and a passionate call
for revolutionary struggle, The American Revolution has been
translated into French, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Catalan, and
Portuguese.
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