CLR James and Walter Rodney

He analysed the Haitian Revolution using Marxism

C.L.R. James was born and grew up in...

• Jamaica

• Trinidad

• Guyana

• St. Lucia

C.L.R. James wrote a book about this sport

• Swimming

• Golf

• Football

• Cricket

Which theorist did not influence James' work?

• Marx

• Lenin

• John Doe

• Trotsky

In Marxist theory, the proletariat is exploited and oppressed by the bourgeoisie

• True

• False

James viewed the black struggle as....

• Having a vitality of its own

• Pointless

• Useless without the help of other social and political movements

• Not as important as the white struggle

James wanted to link the struggles of oppression in colonies with struggles of the proletariat in capitalism

• True

• False

James wrote about this revolution in his book 'The Black Jacobins'

James was the first to explain the events during the Haitian revolution using the Marxist perspective.

• True

• False

He was concerned about how colonialism affected Africa's development, and added to the Dependency theory