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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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
2kg of flour is literally £0.60. you can FIND that much on the way to the supermarket on the FLOOR
Oh shit, I haven't made bannock in months. Gotta get back on that.
Sprinkle some flour on his pillow
That'll show him!
Write up a fake shopping list of all the things you would have to eat if you didn't use so much flour, and then give it to him and ask him to tell you how much that shit costs at the grocery store.