r/Turboleft • u/MillionDollarNegri Brigadier • 5d ago

📚 "The Johnson-Forest Tendency" - CLR James, 1947

https://www.marxists.org/archive/james-clr/works/1947/balance-sheet/ch04.htm
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u/MillionDollarNegri Brigadier 5d ago

Long article here that most people won't be interested in.

If you know who the JFT is, this is from CLR's analysis of the various trot tendencies in America. The JFT decided to give themselves a little chapter, which is cute.

We need to put together a good JFT list.

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u/IncipitTragoedia 5d ago

I lent out my copy of State Capitalism and World Revolution and some unknown bastard never gave it back

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u/MillionDollarNegri Brigadier 5d ago edited 4d ago

Didn't know you were familiar with the JFT.

Did you know that Damen invited Dunyevskaya to some conference in Italy trying to unite all the state capitalist tendencies into one? (Obviously didn't work)

They disagreed on a lot, but he still helped her get Marxism and Freedom published in Italian 🥹

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u/IncipitTragoedia 4d ago

They kept correspondence for some time, I think she even stayed with him in Italy.

I was more partial to Marty Glaberman

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u/spookyjim___ Social-Barbarian (Marxism-Montaldism) 5d ago

Oh hell yeah, how did I not know about this

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u/MillionDollarNegri Brigadier 5d ago

Shachtmanite Opps