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A review by ciara032
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
5.0
“Western Marxism [...] has proven insufficiently radical to expose and root out the racialist order that contaminates its analytic and philosophic applications or to come to effective terms with the implications of its own class origins. As a result, it has been mistaken for something it is not: a total theory of liberation.” (p.317)
“Harbored in the African diaspora there is a single historical identity that is in opposition to the systemic privations of racial capitalism. Ideologically, it cements pain to purpose, experience to expectation, consciousness to collective action. It deepens with each disappointment at false mediation and reconciliation, and is crystallized into ever-increasing cores by betrayal and repression. The resoluteness of the Black radical tradition advances as each generation assembles the data of its experience to an ideology of liberation.” (p.317)
Cedric J. Robinson writes in such an intelligent and eloquent way & it’s easy to see why this is such a prominent text. all leftists should read this but specifically white leftists, it is critical to understanding Marxism as it relates to the current state of capitalism and the intersections of class and race.
“Harbored in the African diaspora there is a single historical identity that is in opposition to the systemic privations of racial capitalism. Ideologically, it cements pain to purpose, experience to expectation, consciousness to collective action. It deepens with each disappointment at false mediation and reconciliation, and is crystallized into ever-increasing cores by betrayal and repression. The resoluteness of the Black radical tradition advances as each generation assembles the data of its experience to an ideology of liberation.” (p.317)
Cedric J. Robinson writes in such an intelligent and eloquent way & it’s easy to see why this is such a prominent text. all leftists should read this but specifically white leftists, it is critical to understanding Marxism as it relates to the current state of capitalism and the intersections of class and race.