ignatz_maria 's review for:

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

informative medium-paced

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jones is fascinating but it almost feel like the wealth of material exceeds the book. the text often lacks direction and is repetitive (davies quotes one passage from the same source on the notting hill riots 3-4 separate times, twice in one chapter!) and seems more focused on situating jones in contemporary debates than her own context. so yes worth reading but maybe better to start with davies’ collection of jones’ writings in beyond containment