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Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Racial Capitalism is the Kind We’ve Got, and Must Defeat
25 May 2021
The issues of race and class are intertwined, and “we must fight against them simultaneously rather than trying to decide if racial or class exploitation came first,” said Justin Leroy
Jon Jeter
An Open Letter to Chris Hedges: Racism, Not 'Cancel Culture' is the Problem
03 Mar 2021
The author, a former corporate journalist like Hedges, reminds him that white workers betrayed Black workers and class solldarity, not the other way around.
Anthony Monteiro
Isabel Wilkerson’s Book "Caste" and the Discontent of a Ruling Class in Crisis
23 Sep 2020
Oprah gushes that this book by the latest darling of the ruling classes might “save us,” but all it’s really trying to save is capitalism.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
Capitalism and Racism Entwined
15 Sep 2020
“There’s long been a recognition of this intertwining of slavery, white supremacy, racism and capitalism,” said Dr.
Anthony Monteiro
The Invention of Ibram X Kendi and the Ideological Crises of Our Time
02 Sep 2020
Rich white capitalists may be donating millions to Black Lives Matter, but they’re also funding and praising nonsense like Kendi’s babblings on race and capitalism.
Philippe Gendrault
Some Reflections on Systemic Racism and Capitalism
02 Sep 2020
The system of exploitation that bore slavery remains, albeit without slavery, the very same system of exploitation.
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
19 Aug 2020
Anti-Blackness and antiradicalism function as the legitimating architecture of modern U.S. racial capitalism.
Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford
You Can’t Understand Capitalism Without Race
18 Aug 2020
The centrality of race in the development of capitalism continues to be resisted by “the sort of hardline, orthodox folks who only look at class, alongside the sort of liberals and so-called racial
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò and Liam Kofi Brigh
“Racial Capitalism” is the Kind We’ve Got
12 Aug 2020
Theorists of racial capitalism are not interested in the characteristics capitalism could have had in some imagined world, but in the world as it exists.