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enby_bookworm's review against another edition
4.0
This was the first book in the Black History folder that someone put together and shared on Facebook - so it was a free e-book, for me - that I started. It's very intense, and I hoped it would give insight into Marxism from another perspective. Perhaps it was because I was it as an e-book on my laptop that made me stop and start so much, but regardless it was interesting. Par 1 I read straight through, Part 2 I faltered a bit, Part 3 was a bit of both.
I definitely want to re-read it and make notes because I feel like a lot of the theory didn't fully click. But basically, Marxism is Eurocentric and although Marx did mention slavery in relation to capitalism, he failed to account that this was a whole culture, a whole collective of different beings with different customs being shipped across the sea. Black radicalism is not about applying Western thought and ideology to Black people, it is an African ideology working against colonialism and the Western cognition.
Bottom line: it's an intense, long read, but well worth it!
I definitely want to re-read it and make notes because I feel like a lot of the theory didn't fully click. But basically, Marxism is Eurocentric and although Marx did mention slavery in relation to capitalism, he failed to account that this was a whole culture, a whole collective of different beings with different customs being shipped across the sea. Black radicalism is not about applying Western thought and ideology to Black people, it is an African ideology working against colonialism and the Western cognition.
Bottom line: it's an intense, long read, but well worth it!
benpurvis42's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
djidvevo's review against another edition
5.0
Amazing book which really nicely does away with many of the myths that the West likes to tell itself, every white leftist should read this book.
juliaortiz's review against another edition
5.0
One of the most incredible and compelling books I've read in the last couple of years. Can't recommend it enough.
alexlanz's review against another edition
This is one of the best books ever written.
mattrohn's review against another edition
3.0
Good material but very dated, the important information and theory from the first 2\3 is embedded throughout much more modern literature, and the last 1\3 mostly of interest to those interested in an intellectual history of leftist politics
nick_jenkins's review
5.0
Wow. Still processing, and tbh, I feel I understand what Robinson means by 'racial capitalism' much better than I understand what he means by 'the Black radical tradition, but this is just such a fertile, unique, and intellectually invigorating book. It is dense, and probably suits the needs and interests of social or economic historians more than intellectual or cultural historians, but for me it is extremely valuable.