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Black Marxism
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition | Cedric J. Robinson
In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of black people and black communities as agents of change and resistance. Black radicalism must be linked to the traditions of Africa and the unique experiences of blacks on western continents, Robinson argues, and any analyses of African American history need to acknowledge this. To illustrate his argument, Robinson traces the emergence of Marxist ideology in Europe, the resistance by blacks in historically oppressive environments, and the influence of both of these traditions on such important twentieth-century black radical thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright.
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This took me forever to read, but I‘m glad I pushed through because it is such an important text and Robinson is so clearly a genius historian and political scientist. It definitely made me rethink a lot about how I move in this world personally and especially politically, and what it truly means to be an accomplice and comrade in the struggle for Black liberation. A must-read for all radicals.