Afro-pessimism seems like the great intellectual taboo in American culture. It's not for me to affirm or deny, but it certainly is plausible based on, I dunno, 500 years of history. Yet people across the political spectrum refuse to acknowledge it as a possibility.
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Not all marxists dispute it though. Ambitious integration here of afro-pessimism and value-form, from the endnotes crowd. https://endnotes.org.uk/issues/3/en/chris-chen-the-limit-point-of-capitalist-equality …
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This is surely Chen's characterization of his own arg, but for usefully symptomatic reasons, I think it's a bit off! Wilderson's account of why blackness doesn't register w/n the wage is a decidedly ontological one unmoved by *any* forms of political economy – Chen's isn't, so...
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