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A review by nup
How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society by Manning Marable
4.0
Marable was a little too enamored with the aesthetics of Rodney, but the dry repetition of entire paragraphs of statistics where a graph would suffice did help illuminate the points he was making.
For the time, a very prescient book; but his political analyses definitely leave something to be desired (e.g. his failure to define fascism, which he admits in the updated version, hand-waving some things away as authoritarianism, lack of analysis on the BPP, Verso-style liberalism). But, not something I wouldn't recommend reading for someone interested in a historical analysis of Black underdevelopment.
For the time, a very prescient book; but his political analyses definitely leave something to be desired (e.g. his failure to define fascism, which he admits in the updated version, hand-waving some things away as authoritarianism, lack of analysis on the BPP, Verso-style liberalism). But, not something I wouldn't recommend reading for someone interested in a historical analysis of Black underdevelopment.