![]() Thus, it carries forward Frantz Fanon’s provocation that Marxism must be ‘stretched’ when considering the colonial question. What makes TBJ distinct from other Marxist texts, according to this reader, is the centrality of the question of colonial domination and of how race and class remain intertwined. TBJR is preoccupied with working out the knots in the complexity of the work, while also remaining committed to a meta-reading of the book, concerned with the question of Revolution generally, historical documentation, and contemporary struggles for liberation. ![]() ![]() ![]() TBJR grapples with several themes concerning both TBJ and James’ political writings in general, including Haitian exceptionalism, Toussaint himself, the historical conditions which made its writing possible, its diasporic reach, and its interlocutions with key Marxist historical texts (including Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution). ![]()
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