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washed_guapi_lee's review against another edition
5.0
Simply THEE towering work of the history of racial capitalism, Marxist theory, and Black resistance to annihilation.
ciara032's review against another edition
5.0
“Western Marxism [...] has proven insufficiently radical to expose and root out the racialist order that contaminates its analytic and philosophic applications or to come to effective terms with the implications of its own class origins. As a result, it has been mistaken for something it is not: a total theory of liberation.” (p.317)
“Harbored in the African diaspora there is a single historical identity that is in opposition to the systemic privations of racial capitalism. Ideologically, it cements pain to purpose, experience to expectation, consciousness to collective action. It deepens with each disappointment at false mediation and reconciliation, and is crystallized into ever-increasing cores by betrayal and repression. The resoluteness of the Black radical tradition advances as each generation assembles the data of its experience to an ideology of liberation.” (p.317)
Cedric J. Robinson writes in such an intelligent and eloquent way & it’s easy to see why this is such a prominent text. all leftists should read this but specifically white leftists, it is critical to understanding Marxism as it relates to the current state of capitalism and the intersections of class and race.
“Harbored in the African diaspora there is a single historical identity that is in opposition to the systemic privations of racial capitalism. Ideologically, it cements pain to purpose, experience to expectation, consciousness to collective action. It deepens with each disappointment at false mediation and reconciliation, and is crystallized into ever-increasing cores by betrayal and repression. The resoluteness of the Black radical tradition advances as each generation assembles the data of its experience to an ideology of liberation.” (p.317)
Cedric J. Robinson writes in such an intelligent and eloquent way & it’s easy to see why this is such a prominent text. all leftists should read this but specifically white leftists, it is critical to understanding Marxism as it relates to the current state of capitalism and the intersections of class and race.
plurellity's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
4.5
masonboerger's review against another edition
challenging
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2.75
Very academic, as a college student I felt like I would need 4 extra years of comments to enjoy reading a book written like this
ludabega's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
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sad
slow-paced
5.0
meganbomberger's review against another edition
slow-paced
4.0
DENSEEEE piece of theory. read for BISR class! super interesting! don’t think i fully understood it!
outcolder's review against another edition
5.0
Most of the book is about carefully removing threads of Eurocentrism while recovering some history that Imperialism reminds us to forget. I am left wondering if there can be such a thing as Black Marxism. Du Bois is on his own trip, it all has precious little to do with Marx. C.L.R. James is so critical of everything, always siding with the newest splinter group until he arrives at something Marx would find interesting but most Marxists would want to expel from whatever 'international' or 'party' they're cooking up now. Together with Richard Wright, James seems to be saying that the oppressed are going to have to figure it out on their own because any kind of vanguard or revolutionary committee or whatever is going to mess it up. Wright goes a bit further and accuses the Marxian leaders of opportunism, Jealous Rebels who just want to run things themselves and use Marxism to manipulate the masses. Sounds more like Black Anarchism to me, which is anyway how I like it. There's way way way more to it than that but that's all I got for you.
matt_zimo's review against another edition
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3.75
Very difficult. I wish I had half of Robinson's intellect.