Color, Class, and Politics in Jamaica, Volume 14

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Meaning of Class Class Struggle
7
Original Encounters in Plantation Jamaica
15
Techniques of Encounter and Their Effects
24
Blessed Are the Meek for They Shall Inherit
43
Transience and Change in Jamaica
52
Schooling
77
Pedagogy and the Persistence
86
The Significance of the 1938 Disturbances
93
The Incoherence
121
Chapter
140
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Page 10 - The mode of production of material life conditions the social, political and intellectual life process in general. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.
Page 12 - The social structure and the State are continually evolving out of the life-process of definite individuals, but of individuals, not as they may appear in their own or other people's imagination, but as they really are; ie as they operate, produce materially, and hence as they work under definite material limits, presuppositions and conditions independent of their will.
Page 13 - The social structure and the state are continually evolving out of the life-process of definite individuals, but of individuals, not as they may appear in their own or other people's imagination, but as they really are; ie, as they are effective, produce materially, and are active under definite material limits, presuppositions and conditions independent of their will.
Page 78 - Education thus becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communiques and makes deposits which the students patiently receive, memorize, and repeat. This is the 'banking...
Page 34 - ... all these human beings were my slaves; to be sure, I never saw people look more happy in my life; and I believe their condition to be much more comfortable than that of the labourers of Great Britain; and, after all, slavery, in their case, is but another name for servitude, now that no more negroes can be forcibly carried away from Africa, and subjected to the horrors of the voyage, and of the seasoning after their arrival: but still I had already experienced, in the morning, that Juliet was...
Page 25 - Every colonised people - in other words every people in whose soul an inferiority complex has been created by the death and burial of its local cultural originality...
Page 99 - Oh no," the peasant replied emphatically. "There would be no one to say: 'This is a world'." The peasant wished to express the idea that there would be lacking the consciousness of the world which necessarily implies the world of consciousness.
Page 91 - Baran, The Political Economy of Growth (New York : Monthly Review Press, 1957); Andre Gunder Frank.
Page 35 - Nothing could be more odd or more novel than the whole scene; and yet there was something in it by which I could not help being affected; perhaps it was the consciousness that all these human beings were my slaves; to be sure, I never saw people look more happy in my life...

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