![]() ![]() 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. Blood In My Eye is a collection of letters and essays speaking primarily on prison life and revolutionary politics from a Marxian point of view. In prison, he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary.īlood In My Eye captures the spirit of George Jackson's legendary resistance to unbridled oppression and racism. While serving an indeterminate sentence for the armed robbery of a gas station in 1961, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activity and co-founded the prison gang Black Guerrilla Family. He was to spend the rest of his life - eleven years- in the California prison system, seven in solitary confinement. George Lester Jackson (Septem August 21, 1971) was an American author, activist and prisoner. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one year to life. ![]() George Jackson died on Augat the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. Blood In My Eye was completed only days before it's author was killed. ![]()
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