Cedric Robinson
This was Robinson’s term for the intertwined nature of racial oppression and capitalist exploitation.
What is racial capitalism?
This scholar popularized the term "racial capitalism" and argued that Black radicalism emerged outside of European Marxism.
Who is Cedric Robinson?
This German philosopher’s writings laid the foundation for the political and economic theory critiqued by Cedric Robinson.
Who is Karl Marx?
This term refers to how capitalism relies on racialization to organize labor and exploit certain groups.
What is racial capitalism?
These authors wrote this article in 2022.
Who is Paret and Levenson?
Robinson critiqued this political ideology for failing to adequately explain the racial dimension of economic exploitation.
What is Marxism?
This book critiques classical Marxism for failing to account for race as central to capitalist exploitation.
What is Black Marxism?
According to Marxist theory, the economic system that precedes communism is known as this.
What is capitalism?
According to Robinson, racial capitalism treats this as a central factor in justifying exploitation, unlike Marxism’s focus on class.
What is race?
This is the first dialectic discussed by Levenson and Paret, exploring the flow of racial capitalism between colonized regions and capitalist centers.
What is periphery and core?
Robinson argued that this tradition of resistance is grounded in African history and culture, not European Marxist thought.
What is the Black Radical Tradition?
This was the year that Black Marxism was written.
1983
Marx argued that the "means of production" in society are controlled by this class, leading to the exploitation of labor.
What are the bourgeoisie?
Robinson traces the development of racial capitalism to the early exploitation of these people during Europe’s colonial expansion.
Who are Africans?
This dialectic examines the relationship between grassroots movements and formal academic scholarship.
What is activism and academia?
Robinson had this career prior to writing Black Marxism.
Probation officer at Alameda County Probation Department.
Cedric Robinson traces the roots of racial capitalism to this European economic system predating capitalism.
What is feudalism?
Robinson critiques this aspect of Marxism, arguing that it overlooks the racialized dimensions of labor exploitation.
What is class reductionism?
Racial capitalism was essential to this global trade system, which exploited African labor for economic gain.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
This country's movement is a central case study in Levenson and Paret’s exploration of racial capitalism.
What is South Africa?
In 1967, Robinson and his wife was inspired by these two movements that were happening at the time.
What is urban rebellion and the anti-war movement?
Cedric Robinson emphasized the importance of this type of memory, essential to the survival of the Black Radical Tradition.
What is collective memory?
This is the factor that makes a capitalist a capitalist.
What is owning the means of production?
This country and movement experienced racial capitalism and popularized the term.
What is South Africa and the anti-apartheid movement?
Levinson & Paret describes this as a system that simultaneously brings the racial capitalism framework to bear on post-apartheid South Africa and draws a parallel with Palestine & Israel.
What is neoliberal apartheid?