You Don't Play With Revolution

You Don't Play With Revolution collects never-before-published lectures by C.L.R. James delivered in Montreal in the late 1960s. Covering topics such as Rousseau, Shakespeare, Marx and Lenin, Heidegger, and read through the lens of Caribbean history, culture, and politics, these talks demonstrate the staggering breadth and depth of one of the twentieth century's most fertile minds.

David Austin is editor of A View for Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks on the Caribbean, Cricket, Montreal, and C.L.R. James; author of The Unfinished Revolution: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Poetry, and the New Society (forthcoming); and is currently completing a book on the political thought of the Caribbean New Left in Canada in the 1960s. He also produced a three-part audio profile of James, C.L.R. James: The Black Jacobin, for CBC Radio.

Acknowledgements	p. VIII
Preface	p. XIII
Introduction: In Search of a National identity: C.L.R. James and the Promise of the Caribbean	p. 1
Public Lectures
The Making of the Caribbean People	p. 29
The Haitian Revolution in the Making of the Modern World	p. 51
Shakespeare's King Lear	p. 71
Private Lectures
Existentialism and Marxism	p. 91
Rousseau and the Idea of the General Will	p. 105
Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and the Caribbean	p. 121
Marx's Capital, the Working-Day, and Capitalist Production	p. 141
Lenin and the Trade Union Debate in Russia
	p. 161
	p. 187
	p. 199
Interviews
On Literature, Exile, and Nationhood Interview by Robert A. Hill for "CBC Tuesday Night"	p. 217
You Don't Play with Revolution McGill Daily interview, Congress of Black Writers	p. 227
Correspondence
Alfie Roberts & Mervyn Solomon to C. L. R.James, March 28,1964	p. 239
Martin Glaberman to C.L.R. James, July 12, 1965	p. 241
Robert A. Hill to Martin Glaberman, August 7, 1965	p. 245
Martin Glaberman to Robert A. Hill, August 22, 1965	p. 247
Robert A. Hill to Martin Glaberman, August 30, 1965	p. 251
Martin Glaberman to C.L.R. James, October 13, 1965	p. 255
Robert A. Hill to Alfie Roberts, November 6, 1965	p. 257
C. L. R. James to Robert A. Hill, December 31, 1965	p. 259
Tim Hector to Robert A. Hill, March 29, 1966	p. 263
Robert A. Hill to Tim Hector, April 1, 1966	p. 267
C.L.R. James to Martin Glaberman & Robert A. Hill, June 24, 1966	p. 269
Robert A. Hill to Martin & Jessie Glaberman, July 7, 1966	p. 271
Martin Glaberman to Frank Monico, October 13, 1966	p. 273
Martin Glaberman to C.L.R. James, November 14, 1966	p. 275
Alfie Roberts to Martin Glaberman, January 27, 1967	p. 277
Alfie Roberts to C. L. R. James, December 8, 1967	p. 279
Alfie Roberts to C. L. R. James, May 3, 1968	p. 281
Rosie Douglas to C. L. R. James, June 9, 1968	p. 283
C. L. R. James to Rosie Douglas, June 27, 1968	p. 287
C.L.R. James: The Man and His Work, by Martin Glaberman	p. 291
Beyond the Mournful Silence, by Robert A. Hill	p. 295
On the Banning of Walter Rodney from Jamaica, by C.L.R. James	p. 299
Notes	p. 303
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