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Racial Capitalism and the Dark Proletariat

OUR IDEA OF RACIAL CAPITALISM, as Walter Johnson explains, comes from Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism (1983). But it has another lineage, one that predates Robinson even as it emerges from the same tradition of black radical thought to which he belonged.

In October 1979 an unsigned essay titled “Neo-Marxism and the Bogus Theory of ‘Racial Capitalism’” appeared in Ikwezi: A Black Liberation Journal of South African and Southern African Political Analysis. Published in London, the journal offered a radical alternative to the politics of both the African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. Ikwezi’s take on racial capitalism is clear from the title: the concept is not to be celebrated and embraced as a critical counterweight to European Marxism. Instead it is a product of European Marxists’ attempts to co-opt and condition black liberation struggles in southern Africa.

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Introduction
CEDRIC J. ROBINSON’S PASSING this summer at the age
Triptych
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To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice
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The Gong of History; Or, What Is a Human?
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Theories of Justice
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Reviving the Black Radical Tradition
WALTER JOHNSON IS UPSET at the state of the historiography
Putting Rights in Their Place
WALTER JOHNSON GIVES A BRACING critique of two ways
What Slavery Tells Us about Marx
Following W. E. B. Du Bois and Cedric Robinson, Walter
When Liberalism Defended Slavery
Walter Johnson demonstrates how little liberal humanism
Black Humanity and Black Power
BLACK HUMANITY IS UNEXCEPTIONAL, Walter Johnson exhorts.
This, Our Second Nadir
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Are we not coming more and more, day by day, to making
Lake Michigan, Scene 22
And I point to the list of the names of the missing
Births of a Nation: Surveying Trumpland with Cedric Robinson
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Dwayne Betts is a poet, memoirist, and teacher. His