"As the state has been hollowed out as a result of neoliberalization - who is going to suffer the most? Blacks who work for the postal service, Blacks who had public sector jobs and HAVE seen their pensions raided along with everybody else, Blacks who are public school teachers... It's easy to see how the condition of Black people is connected to the resurgent power of the capitalist class. It's not separate, it's deeply connected.
Political scientist Cedric Johnson examines the realities of class in Black political life - from the limits of electoralism and a solely race-driven analysis in challenging the slow decline of a people (and nation) under de-industrialization and neoliberal austerity, to the power of a Marxist, materialist lens in understanding the power dynamics in capitalist society.
Cedric wrote the article Coming to Terms with Actually-Existing Black Life for New Politics, reposted as What Black Life Actually Looks Like for Jacobin.
The rioters all knew himā it had to be an inside jobā ācause to a man they spoke to him by name as they breached the building. Read their lipsā¦
Combined with Revolutionary Love, we grow power through mutual aid, political education, release of the incarcerated, and community control over police.
To dismiss the logic of Robinsonās āracial capitalism,ā one must ignore the only history of capitalism we have.
This week you discussed the struggle against the dollar and neocolonialism.
Britain is, indeed, the āmother countryā of US white supremacy, having bythe 13th century become āThe First Racial State in the West.ā
