Blood in My Eye

by George L. Jackson

176 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1975

About the author

George Lester Jackson was an African-American left-wing activist, Marxist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family. Jackson achieved fame as one of the Soledad Brothers and was later shot to death by guards in San Quentin Prison.

Reviews

[Julio The Fox · Rating 3 out of 5]

It would be good to report, pro bono publico, that George Jackson's follow-up to his stunning and brilliant book of letters, SOLEDAD BROTHER, packs the same punch. Alas, such is not the case. These musings on an American revolution that never was, published posthumously, focus far too much on tactics and scenarios. Many American reform and revolutionary movements, from the nineteenth-century populists to the Socialist Party of Eugene Debs, have foundered on the rock of racism, either dismissing it or not making anti-racist action a priority. Jackson's insights into why that has been the case would have been invaluable, but here they are Missing in Action. The language of these mini-essays is stilted, dogmatic and without the electric prose that made SOLEDAD BROTHER so moving a debut.