| Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 436 pages) |
| 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 text the author demonstrates that the efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate, because it presupposes European models of history. Black radicalism, he argues, must be linked to the African traditions |
| Notes |
"First published 1983 by Zed Press, 57 Caledonian Road, London"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-429) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed June 3, 2020) |
| Subject |
Communism -- Africa
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Communism -- Developing countries
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African American communists.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism.
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African American communists
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Communism
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Politische Bewegung
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Radikalismus
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Kapitalismus
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Marxismus
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Africa
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Developing countries
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Europa
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Schwärze
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0807876127 |
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9780807876121 |
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