This video covers a brief introduction to CLR James' book, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution. It is Part 1 of 2. Part 2 will cover the main and secondary ideas of the book.
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This is EXTREMELY helpful. The beautiful tracking of French philosophy, revolution and historical context into the moment of the Saint Domingue Revolution painted the full picture I needed to see!
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I stumbled upon this book upon seeing this listed as a secondary source in Edward Baptist's "The Half Has Never Been Told." This book really goes into detail about how cruel and how badly slaves were mistreated by the white french slavers.
No. Hegel never used any of those terms (thesis, antithesis, synthesis). Fichte did. Hegel's and Marx's dialectic denotes the tension _within_ each concept or material force. Neither the slave class nor the slave owning class are an antithesis that arose consecutively in opposition to the other. Both classes' existence is dependent on the other. They form a unity of opposites, a class society. And that state of affairs doesn't resolve with a "synthesis", "fusion" or - god forbid - a compromise between the two. The antagonism is resolved through what you might call transcendence or sublation, in this case abolition,.
Good video. I’m reading Black Jacobins now and I feel its reputation (at least the reputation I knew it by) does not do total justice to how deep and broad the subject is. There are so many factions, states, governments, political tendencies, classes, and personnel involved in the events.
This is excellent and inspires me to read more, especially of Gramsci, of whom I know little. Is there a class summarizing his thought? I'm also interested in learning about the history of Haiti over the past 200 years.
Thank you! Gives context. I wonder: Are there any popular historical books on the Haïtian revolution who refute this book? Is there reason to believe ‘the black jacobins’ was so influenced by the beliefs of the writer that it is controversial?
