Cyril Lionel Robert James, born on this day in 1901, was a Marxist historian, journalist, and cricket enthusiast whose works include "The Black Jacobins", an essential history of the Haitian Revolution. In 1937, he also wrote "World Revolution", detailing the rise and fall of the Communist International.
Born in Trinidad, James later moved to England to assist his friend, the West Indian cricketer Learie Constantine, with his autobiography. In 1933, he moved to London and begin organizing with Trotskyists. In the next few years, James wrote some of his most notable works, including both "World Revolution" and "The Black Jacobins".
In 1939, James visited Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, México. The two disagreed on the "Negro Question"; Trotsky saw the Trotskyist Party as providing leadership to the black community in a relationship similar to the Bolsheviks and ethnic minorities in Russia, while James suggested that the self-organized struggle of African-Americans would lead to a broader radical social movement.
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity."
- CLR James
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I love that when I worry about a possible medical issue, my first thought is "I hope I don't have to take an unpaid day to take care of this"
functional country :amerikkka:
right up there with begging people to not call an ambulance because you can’t afford the bill
Experienced that one first hand a few weeks back with a man having an epileptic seizure where I work.
turns out, for some, getting covid again post-vax, post boost, feels just as bad as it did the first time. lame!
U know when ur really high up on a cliff or tower and ur brain goes like "what if I jumped right now that would be crazy I hope I don't do that on accident"
I get that when I'm presenting at work, like I'm sharing my screen and my brain goes "what if I just googled porn right now that would be crazy I hope I don't do that on accident"
Decided to run to the store like 6 blocks away. Didn’t check the temperature. It’s -37 and -50 with the wind .
Ahahajaha I can’t feel anything and I hate everything.
:matt-jokerfied:
I work outside year round (partially nowadays) We had a guy bitching about wearing a mask . I fucking lost it on him. It was freezing out and I worked with him in the winter precovid for a bit and he had his face covered the whole time by choice . I remembered this because he’s a giant wimp that wouldn’t take his gloves off for literally 2 seconds to do a task that finger agility is necessary.
He is still around the company but they keep him away from my sites. What is nice because I still want to hit him.
Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
Sorry about the rant.
ended up watching a few New York apartment vids - those rent prices and tiny spaces got me hyperventilating like shit
splitting 3k a month with a roommate just to live in a tiny box. I love cities but FUCk thAT
Then there's this new multi-million dollar condo thing somewhere in Queens or some shit that's still smaller than the apartment my family and I used to live in near DC, but wait, you get like twice as much outdoor/observation/terrace shit space. The excess... it's fucking gross, man
NYC is great but it's too expensive unless your parents are multimillionaires. It's just not worth it
They were also the ones to demand the businesses open up because they couldn't get their treats. Like why the fuck would you do that that prep for?
I was prepared for this. Those silly fools, they laughed at me, but I was ready. eats first :bean-think: . you know, those proud boys talk a lot of sense
it’ll be that way in five years too when the prepper crowd starts the new us civil war
my dad was complaining I go through so much flour. fam, I'm not coating myself in that shit, I use it to make meals, meals made from bulk cheap ingredients that are 10x cheaper than the fucking processed foods and meats you eat. the fucking cheek of it. so yeah I might go through a 2kg bag of flour within a few weeks, but you have to consider how much you save in what we don't buy because of that
Was going to stop at a deli for breakfast while at work, coworker points at someone who is walking in, saying "oh, that's my aunt! I should say hi" and then he remembers that she is positive for Covid, we turned around real quick. Lovely country we live in
