Historian Cedric Johnson’s essay “The Panthers Can’t Save Us Now,”
published in 2017 in the socialist journal Catalyst, generated a lot of
discussion and won the Daniel Singer Memorial Prize.
Addressing a historic discussion about the tensions between race and
class for socialist strategy, Johnson argued against the legacy of
racial essentialism in contemporary political movements, and for a class
analysis rooted in a materialist understanding of Black political life.
We asked Cedric if he would be willing to extend his argument for New
Politics and he graciously agreed to do so. We published his article in
our Winter 2019 issue, along with essays by three scholars and activists
— Jay Arena, Touré Reed, and Mia White — who were asked to comment on
the significant political issues he raised, though they wrote their
pieces without having seen Johnson’s new essay.
We invited further contributions to this discussion and subsequently
published a response to Johnson by Kim Moody, a reply by Johnson to Mia
White and Moody, an analysis of black leadership by Lester Spence, and a
further comment on Johnson by Brian Jones.
All of these articles are linked here. We hope this collection of essays
helps clarify issues critical to building an effective socialist
movement in the United States.
https://newpol.org/the-american-left-and-black-lives-matter-a-symposium/
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