Letters on Organization
- Detroit: Facing Reality Publishing Committee, [1963]
Detroit: Facing Reality Publishing Committee, [1963]. First Edition. Quarto (28cm); mimeographed sheets (rectos), saddle-stitched into yellow mimeographed card covers; 59pp. Light wear and dustiness to covers, ink date to upper right corner of front cover, with subtle toning to text edges; contents clean; Near Fine.
A late work from Facing Reality, a small faction of C.L.R. James loyalists that remained following the split in the Johnson-Forrest Tendency in 1955. The group was led by Martin Glaberman in the U.S. and C.L.R. James in England. The contents consist of a series of letters from James to Glaberman (who he addresses as "Marty"). "The letters put forward the idea that the changes in the world since Lenin's time have not merely changed the objective situation which Marxists face but have also changed the working class and the conceptions and ideas of people all over the world. The threat of atomic weapons, the experience of two world wars, a major world-wide depression, fascism and the development of capitalist production itself -- all have combined to create universal hostility to present day society, in developed and undeveloped countries alike...The Marxist organization must be able to recognize this drive toward a new society, record it and align itself with it in a newspaper. The kind of preparation necessary for producing a successful newspaper and the kinds of discipline and attitudes which must be attained before a newspaper can become possible are detailed" (from the preface). A significant collection of correspondence, uncommon in commerce. OCLC notes 10 holdings, of these, only 7 in U.S. institutions.
A late work from Facing Reality, a small faction of C.L.R. James loyalists that remained following the split in the Johnson-Forrest Tendency in 1955. The group was led by Martin Glaberman in the U.S. and C.L.R. James in England. The contents consist of a series of letters from James to Glaberman (who he addresses as "Marty"). "The letters put forward the idea that the changes in the world since Lenin's time have not merely changed the objective situation which Marxists face but have also changed the working class and the conceptions and ideas of people all over the world. The threat of atomic weapons, the experience of two world wars, a major world-wide depression, fascism and the development of capitalist production itself -- all have combined to create universal hostility to present day society, in developed and undeveloped countries alike...The Marxist organization must be able to recognize this drive toward a new society, record it and align itself with it in a newspaper. The kind of preparation necessary for producing a successful newspaper and the kinds of discipline and attitudes which must be attained before a newspaper can become possible are detailed" (from the preface). A significant collection of correspondence, uncommon in commerce. OCLC notes 10 holdings, of these, only 7 in U.S. institutions.