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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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Communism, African American communists, Communism, africa, Pan-africanism, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Political Ideologies, Communism & Socialism, Politische Bewegung, Radikalismus, Kapitalismus, Marxismus, Radicalism, History, Communism--africa, Communism--developing countries, African american communists, Hx436.5 .r63 2000, 335.43/0917/496Places
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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
2002, The University of North Carolina Press
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Black marxism: the making of the Black radical tradition
2000, University of North Carolina Press
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Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
December 1991, Zed Books
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Black Marxism: the making of the black radical tradition
1983, Zed Press
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"The historical development of world capitalism was influenced in a most fundamental way by the particularistic forces of racism and nationalism."
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