| Description |
xxxiii, 436 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-429) and index. |
| Contents |
Radical capitalism: the nonobjective character of capitalist development -- The English working class as the mirror of production -- Socialist theory and nationalism -- The process and consequences of Africa's transmutation -- The Atlantic slave trade and African labor -- The historical archaeology of the Black radical tradition -- The nature of the Black radical tradition -- The formation of an intelligentsia -- Historiography and the Black radical tradition -- C.L.R. James and the Black radical tradition -- Richard Wright and the critique of class theory. |
| Summary |
"In this 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."--Jacket. |
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Communism -- Africa.
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Communism. |
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Africa. |
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Communism -- Developing countries.
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Developing countries. |
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African American communists.
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African American communists. |
| ISBN |
0807848298 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780807848296 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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