Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition - Tapa blanda

"Black Marxism" provides a well-documented foundation upon which to build ideological and mass social movements."Phylon" Reflective and thought-provoking, a welcome contribution to the African/Afro-American studies discipline."Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism" A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of black radical thought.Cornel West, "Monthly Review" I can say, without a trace of hyperbole, that this book changed my life.Robin D. G. Kelley, from the Foreword "Reflective and thought-provoking, a welcome contribution to the African/Afro-American studies discipline."Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism"" "A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of black radical thought.Cornel West, "Monthly Review"" "I can say, without a trace of hyperbole, that this book changed my life.Robin D. G. Kelley, from the Foreword"

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. |In this reissue of a 1983 classic, Robinson argues that Western Marxism is unable to comprehend either the racial character of capitalism or mass movements outside of Europe. Robinson combines political theory, history, philosophy, and cultural analysis to illustrate his argument and chronicles the influence of Marxist ideology and black resistance on such important black radical thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James, and Richard Wright.