What do you think of this? - On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:26 AM Jim Farmelant <[email protected]> wrote: > Sifting the “Stony Soil” of Black Marxism: Cedric Robinson, Richard Wright, and Ellipses of the Black Radical Tradition > https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08854300.2020.1862559?fbclid=IwAR1EpJqmm_L5yFNEoo5lD_kbwGP2fgQC5gLG8EmwYq3UAEVh3ci16Jt0GPQ
and this Beyond “Racial Capitalism” Toward a Unified Theory of Capitalism and Racial Oppression by Charlie Post, Brooklyn Rail, October 2020 https://brooklynrail.org/2020/10/field-notes/Beyond-Racial-Capitalism-Toward-A-Unified-Theory-of-Capitalism-and-Racial-Oppression On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 7:20 AM Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > > By Robin D.G. Kelley > > The inspiration to bring out a new edition of Cedric Robinson’s classic, > Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition, came from the > estimated 26 million people who took to the streets during the spring and > summer of 2020 to protest the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, > Ahmaud Arbery, and the many others who lost their lives to the police. During > this time, the world bore witness to the Black radical tradition in motion, > driving what was arguably the most dynamic mass rebellion against > state-sanctioned violence and racial capitalism we have seen in North America > since the 1960s—maybe the 1860s. The boldest activists demanded that we > abolish police and prisons and shift the resources funding police and prisons > to housing, universal healthcare, living-wage jobs, universal basic income, > green energy, and a system of restorative justice. These new abolitionists > are not interested in making capitalism fairer, safer, and less racist—they > know this is impossible. They want to bring an end to “racial capitalism.” > > http://bostonreview.net/race-philosophy-religion/robin-d-g-kelley-why-black-marxism-why-now > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6023): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6023 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80286261/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
