From the inner sleeve:
This book does more than draw attention to the West Indies. It explains them and clarifies what they are by presenting a panoramic, overall view of the Caribbean from which emerges a fact too little recognized and which it impresses on the reader’s mind: there is such a thing as Caribbean unity – a unity, Daniel Guérin declares, that has been fashioned out of poverty. For everywhere in the West Indies – whether thanks to sugar-cane monoculture, to racism or to the Administrations – the same forces concert to produce the same sorry order. Apart from these questions Daniel Guérin’s book presents a sketch of the comparative history of all the Caribbean peoples which, going beyond its manifold forms, gets at the core of the dynamism peculiar to Caribbean history.
Daniel Guérin (19 May 1904, Paris – 14 April 1988, Suresnes) was a French anarcho-communist author, best known for his work Anarchism: From Theory to Practice, as well as his collection No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism in which he collected writings on the idea and movement it inspired, from the first writings of Max Stirner in the mid-19th century through the first half of the 20th century. He is also known for his opposition to Nazism, fascism, Stalinism and colonialism, in addition to his support for the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) during the Spanish Civil War, and his revolutionary defence of free love and homosexuality.
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