Re: [marxmail] What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like

2020-08-24 Thread Ernestleif
To Roger Kulp. I don't disagree at all. You say: They need to build alliances,with largely white,or multiracial,socialist and anarchist groups. Well yes, of course. I have more than a few friends who see the dems as bankrupt, but feel they have no alternative organizational structures to join.

Re: [marxmail] What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like

2020-08-24 Thread Roger Kulp
To Ernestlief Why not?Sometimes intersectionality can be a good thing.I do not believe black power movements,from Marcus Garvey,to BLM,have ever been large enough.or powerful enough to succeed on their own.They need to build alliances,with largely white,or multiracial,socialist and anarchist gro

Re: [marxmail] What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like

2020-08-23 Thread Andrew Stewart
This is more than a year old. Reed is misrepresenting several issues while grinding an axe subtly against those who subscribe to the Black Radical Tradition described by Cedric Robinson's book *Black Marxism*. Read between the lines of this and several other polemics and you discern that underlyin

Re: [marxmail] What Materialist Black Political History Actually Looks Like

2020-08-23 Thread Dayne Goodwin
I think that Reed's evaluation of C.L.R. James is unfair to James' full life political trajectory. I think that the most popular understandings of James' politics suffer from anti-Marxist interpretations of James' later years. It has been a few years but i think of Farrukh Dhondy's biography of J