Race and class: Do we need a 'Black Marxism'? 

​Q: "If a white factory worker fights against an African American capitalist, then what is the Marxist stance?" A: Marxist in the context of class struggle between workers and capitalists, we stand with workers against capitalists, and we will not give any capitalist of any ethnicity or race a free pass to exploit and oppress workers.

Great, great lead-off! Thank you all, British comrades. As a French-Canadian member, I couldn't come to the school, so these videos are helping a lot to understand Marxism through its roots. Have a great day - and let's build this revolution together!

Thank you for the live comrades, as I couldn't attend in person ✊🏻🚩

Great lead-off as always! But comrades should stop being afraid of being loud! Loud is good, more people will listen, more loud comrades plz!

Who was speaking, and where can we hear more from them? 🤞🤷‍♂

Coooked with the class fire🔥 💯 Rigorous & profound!

We criticise so we can help the semi awakened conciousness not tell people what to do. If they come along they come.

JUST LIKE FANON SAID MARXISM HAS TO BE stretched out.

Marx's letter to Engels July 30 1862 😭😭😭

The speaker mischaracterises the book and the author’s thesis. I question if she actually read the book given the inaccuracy of her claims. I think her political-econmic analysis of racialism as a complex sociological system is awful and inaccurate. Why did white working-class people vote against their own economic interest with Brexit? Racial Capitalism explains this tendency towards class fragmentation. Robinson explores the relationship between racialization (the social construction of race) and class formation. Next, he talks explicitly about proto-racism in Europe as a precursor to racialism. The hierarchical relations formed around racialism was created in service to capitalist extractions and fragmentation of class solidarity. Robinson clearly explains how racialism was not static but highly mutable and changeable over time. He talks extensively about how Irish immigrants to England during the early industrialisation period were racialised and the expansion of racialist logics through colonial imperialism. Specifically, Robinson discusses racialism as a dynamic and changing relationality not static one. The Black Radical tradition is an intellectual school of thought even if the speaker is not aware of the breadth of the scholarship. The speaker demonstrates poor scholarly analysis of the topic. I wish she engaged with the author’s thesis rather than mischaracterising the author’s central thesis. Organisers, next time me get a speaker who actually read the book not skimmed it, preferably a political scientist.

Turn up the volume and then repost the video.

Maybe the speaker should read Yurugu by Marimba Ani.

No need if antiracism is practised right?

If Black Marxists feel it's needed, then yes. Different communities have different pressing conditions and concerns. BUT it's up to those communities to decide it.

😂😂 what fools

Before asking the question, please define what is Black Marxism?

Change your mind change the world idealism.

The ruling class. You mean Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot.

I think it’s possible to imagine a non-racist, non-sexist etc capitalism. It’s absolutely theoretically possible to have a capitalist society with huge economic inequality without any racial component to that class hierarchy. So just as many black millionaires and billionaires as white ones and so on. So I don’t think capitalism is inherently racist, sexist and so on.

Talk about being duped. She obviously has never studied world history over the past 1000 to 2000 years. And see how the borders of countries or continents changed. Land and borders Flowed like Mercury on a flat surface. Even history of the last century with revolutions. And to talk about Africa revolutions and not know what they were revolting for. I’m shocked.

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