On 2/2/21 7:19 AM, Dayne Goodwin wrote:
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
Since Ramsey's article is a close reading of Robinson's "Black Marxism"
that I have not read in its entirety, I'll have to bracket it out.
Post claims that it was only under capitalist property-relations that
racism as a distinct way of "differentiating human beings" developed.
The problem with this, however, is that imposes the Brenner thesis on
world history that fails to account for the transitional period between
feudalism and capitalism that lasted for centuries as well as being
spread across continents. For example, when the Portuguese began the
slave trade in the 15th century, it was a way of differentiating human
beings as should be obvious. In chapter 31 of Capital, Marx explained
all this, even though the Brennerites carefully avoid commenting on it:
The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation,
enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population,
the beginning of the conquest and looting of the East Indies, the
turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of
black-skins, /signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist
production./
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