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On 7/9/18 1:41 PM, Andrew Stewart via Marxism wrote:
Very interesting and nice to see CPUSA adapting the Du Bois line of
thinking about the Civil War from BLACK RECONSTRUCTION. Guess Herbert
Aptheker's legacy is bearing some some good bounty.
From Andrew Zimmerman, the editor of this book that I ordered today:
For this reason I wholly agree with Johnson that scholars and activists
should follow Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism. I think doing so requires
developing not just Robinson’s concept of racial capitalism, but also
his concept of a black radical tradition in a complex dialogue with Marxism.
As Johnson suggests, what Robinson analyzed as the black radical
tradition offers a more promising perspective than liberal humanism for
understanding slavery and combatting ongoing racial capitalism. For
Robinson this tradition was not simply a response to racial capitalism
or enslavement; it had African roots prior to, and independent of, the
forms of oppression it combatted. “The Black radical tradition,” he
wrote, “casts doubt on the extent to which capitalism penetrated and
re-formed social life and on its ability to create entirely new
categories of human experience stripped bare of the historical
consciousness embedded in culture. . . . After all it had been as an
emergent African people and not as slaves that Black men and women had
opposed enslavement.” Robinson does not reduce the black radical
tradition to a static, ahistorical, unitary culture; that is why he
refers to an “emergent African people” comprised of many different
cultures and classes and a broad range of cultural and political
productions, from the social healing practices of Obeah, Vodou, and
other Afro-Atlantic religions to the writings of contemporary black
intellectuals.
full:
http://bostonreview.net/forum/remake-world-slavery-racial-capitalism-and-justice/andrew-zimmerman-when-liberalism-defended
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