Our concern should not be, as it has often been for so many, whether
Robinson was right or wrong when he called into question the political
and theoretical tools of Marxism, but rather how he can serve as a
useful intellectual resource for thinking through our current fraught
politics. Since the 1980s, we have witnessed a hard right turn in U.S.
politics that would seem to have left us, in the face of Trump’s
proto-fascism, capable only of mustering the anemic liberalism of a
Biden-Harris administration. That rightward turn has been accompanied by
a decline in the formerly vibrant, polyvalent Black public sphere and
the rise of a Black political elite who consider their own officeholding
to be the fulfillment of the civil rights and Black Power movements.
Robinson’s work, like that of Robert Allen, Audre Lorde, M. Jacqui
Alexander, Angela Davis, Robin D. G. Kelley, Cathy Cohen, and Richard
Iton, explores a vibrant alternative to the diminishing returns of
formal political participation.
http://bostonreview.net/race/minkah-makalani-cedric-robinson-and-origins-race
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