{"product_id":"black-marxism","title":"Black Marxism","description":"\"Over  the last decade, Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black  Radical Tradition has had a tremendous influence on scholars and activists  alike, deeply shaping debates on the place of race within capitalist  societies. Is race subsumed by class, with the latter the sine qua non of  capitalism? Do race and class act independently within modern societies? Or  does capitalism inevitably express a deeper racial impetus in the West? In  this, the first book-length discussion of Black Marxism, Nimtz lays out the  limits of Robinson’s much-celebrated text, showing it represents a  sophisticated, but ultimately flawed, version of Black nationalism. Nimtz  defends Marxism from Robinson’s accusations of myopia on matters of race,  suggesting that, in charging Marx and Engels with Eurocentrism, he either  failed to understand, or misrepresented, their work—and that, in effect, many  thinkers inspired by Black Marxism blatantly misrepresented Marxist texts.     Especially in his writings about the U.S. Civil War, Marx had far more to say  about race than is commonly understood, Nimtz shows.         An authentic Marxism, argues Nimtz, remains the most reliable real-world  method for human liberation, not least among peoples of African descent. Speaking  himself as a contemporary of Robinson’s, Nimtz grounds “Black Marxism”: A  Marxist Critique in an account of his own upbringing in New Orleans, and his  development throughout the struggles of the 1960s, explaining how and why he  came to radically different conclusions. Accessible and engaging, “Black  Marxism”: A Marxist Critique will be a significant intervention in the  race-versus-class debate on the U.S. Left. No doubt, Nimtz’s trenchant  critique will generate controversy, highlighting how more possibilities for  transracial class alliances exist than ever before—and misguided theories  like Robinson’s prevent us from seeing that potential. His detailed rejoinder  to Black Marxism is much needed.\"           “Veteran Marxist scholar and activist August Nimtz has given us in this  masterful study the most decisive intervention in many years in the  race-versus-class debate. This work could not be more timely given the  urgency of building proletarian consciousness and unity in the face of global  capitalist crisis and the threat of fascism. As Professor Nimtz put it, there  is a fundamental incompatibility between the ‘Black Marxism’ of Cedric  Robinson and the real Marxist project.   He shows why ‘Black Marxism’ is ‘not only useless but in today’s world  dangerous – a chimera, a faux solution.’”—William I. Robinson, Distinguished  Professor of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507703587189,"sku":"9781685901738","price":15.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/black-marxism","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}