A review by historicalmaterialgirl
Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones by Carole Boyce Davies

informative reflective slow-paced

3.5

This book is more a biography of Jone's ideas, with a few personal details thrown in, than an actual biography. There are something very useful and insightful points about how Marxism-Leninism can apply to the conditions of Black women, and the US government's use of deportation and incarceration to enforce capitalist ideology, especially as anti-immigration, anti-Black and anti-communist laws conflux. That being said, there are a lot of tangents, repetition and parts that I personally did not find useful or interesting, especially regarding poetry lmao