Read this! I’m so gutted this is the first I’m hearing of his work and that I’ll never get to meet this man in person. Via @shyamoliesinghhttps://twitter.com/HalfAtlanta/status/954058080165253120 …
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Robinson “challenges the conceits of liberal and Marxist theories of political change, arguing that leadership—the idea that effective social action is determined by a leader who is separate from or above the masses of people—and political order are essentially fictions.”https://twitter.com/aral/status/954283425124569088 …
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“Robinson challenged the Marxist idea that capitalism was a revolutionary negation of feudalism. Instead capitalism emerged within the feudal order and flowered in the cultural soil of a Western civilization already thoroughly infused with racialism.”https://twitter.com/aral/status/954283542342787072 …
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Aral Balkan @aralRobinson “challenges the conceits of liberal and Marxist theories of political change, arguing that leadership—the idea that effective social action is determined by a leader who is separate from or above the masses of people—and political order are essentially fictions.” https://twitter.com/aral/status/954283425124569088 …Show this thread1 reply 1 retweet 3 likesShow this thread
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“Capitalism and racism, in other words, did not break from the old order but rather evolved from it to produce a modern world system of “racial capitalism” dependent on slavery, violence, imperialism, and genocide.” Read the full article at http://bostonreview.net/race/robin-d-g-kelley-what-did-cedric-robinson-mean-racial-capitalism …https://twitter.com/aral/status/954283876968550406 …
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