About this title: George Jackson was an activist, a political theoretician, and a revolutionary. He completed this work only days before he was killed in San Quentin prison during an alleged escape attempt.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam Books 1872
Date Published: 1872
Description: ISBN. Mass Market Paperback. First Printing. Tight sound unmarked copy in very good condition with slight browning to the interior pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, 1972
Date Published: 1972
Description: Very Good. Slight wear on extremities to include bruising on spine, slight pen on first page, otherwise, clean copy with tight binding and crisp pages, and without spine creases. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1972
Description: Good. Pb, light wear/soil, crease at spine, nick at front side edge, tag residue on front cover, name/date on 1st pg, underlining in introduction, remaining pgs clean/off-white; 12mo 7"-7½" tall; 169 pages. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, Harmondsworth
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780140038781ISBN:0140038787
Description: Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 174pp. Paperback in good condition, minor creasing, yellowing and edgewear. This is a devastating and passionate critique of American society, it takes up where 'Soledad Brother' leaves off. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam
Date Published: 1972
Description: The Passionate Manifesto of America's Greatest Revolutionary Black Writer. Near fine pictorial stiff wraps with strong square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Light former owner's neat signature to inside cover, which bothers no part of the text. read more
Description: Good. ( Penguin 1975, Paperback. ) In this fascinating and well argued work, Jackson wrote a powerful and passionate critique of the racist and exploitative nature of American industrial capitalist society. Jackson also provides in 'Blood In My Eye', not just a critique of the system, but also an alternative picture not only of black liberation, but also wider human liberation. The work remains a seminal work of the American New Left. The book itself is in a good overall condition. Spine very ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Black Classic Press
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780933121232ISBN:0933121237
Description: Brand new paperback. 195 pages. Jackson was an activist, a political theoretician, and a revolutionary. He completed this work only days before he was killed in San Quentin prison during an alleged escape attempt. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Black Classic Press, Baltimore
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780933121232ISBN:0933121237
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 195 p. Audience: General/trade. Blood In My Eye captures the spirit of George Jackson's legendary resistance to unbridled oppression and racism. His unique and incisively critical perspective becomes the unifying thread that ties together this collection of letters and essays in which he presents his analysis of armed struggle, class war, fascism, communism, and a wide array of other topics. 1971, 1990. 195 pp. Paper. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin, United Kingdom
Date Published: 1975
ISBN-13:9780140038781ISBN:0140038787
Description: Good+ 0140038787. A good paperback without creases to the spine, lightly creased and edge worn covers, no writing or stamps, ivoried pages. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our bookshop in Scotland.; 176 pages. read more
"This is the voice and story of a different type of prisoner. George Jackson would have been a Pulitzer prize winner, a noted writer and political leader, a teacher, made thinkers of the ilk of Noam Chomsky pale literally in comparison, had he not been Black and poor in the U.S The 1960s were fertile times -- even behind prison walls -- for thinking outside the box, for acting and doing things to change the word and the world. Although this is another discussion, 1960s not only saw the rise of civil rights, Black liberation, Chicano, American Indian, environmentalist, women's, Asian American, and new andn older left movements, this period also saw the consolidation and implementation of neoliberalism. The dramatic turn to the right in social and economic policies took shape by the end of the 1960s and collected its dues in blood. AIM leaders and members, Black Panthers, Puerto Ricans and other U.S.-born and bred liberation fighters and thinkers lost their lives, ended up in prison or marginalized by the rush of capitalism' restructuring and reconcentration of wealth that continues whose ebbs and flows impacted our movements, George Jackson was one of them. It's never late to read this book of a by-gone era that still holds out promise, hope and lessons for our current situation."
""Blood in My Eye" is George L. Jackson's second book after "Soledad Brother's", published in 1972. The author was the Black Panthers' Party's (BPP) field-marshal for the prisons. He was imprisoned for stealing 70 dollars when he was 18 years old. In 1971, he was assassinated by a guard. During his imprisonment, his younger brother Jonathan, also a member of the BPP, was killed in action while he was trying to free some black prisoners. He was just 17 years old.
It contains letters and texts about revolution and the American black-colony liberation war, those are based on his studies of scientific socialism. Inspired by Mao, Lenin and by the prideful liberation struggles in Vietnam and Algeria, he planned how to fight imperialism from his home and how to realized the BPP's slogan: All power to the people.
Despite the fact he was seeing the world through thick bars, he offers us a brilliant analysis of the hostile social relationship in the America of the 70's. I would recommend this book to everybody who is interested in the rebellious flip-side of the US. That side that the government has always tried to hide in its darkest cells."
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