I once went to visit James where he was staying with the family of a Party member in St Augustine. He was living in near poverty. He was dependent on people who did not seem to accord him the respect that he deserved. I did not like to see James in that condition. The whole experience made me very uncomfortable.
History has a strange way of working itself out.
I really don't believe that CLR would have been successful in government. He was too iconoclastic and in many respects uncompromising, for that. James was a great thinker, teacher, inspirer, and organiser. But I am not sure he would have made a good administrator. I cannot imagine him as a Prime Minister or a Minister of Government.