The Antinomies of Black Marxism: Critique of the Racial Capitalism Paradigm

Cedric Robinson’s widely acclaimed study on Marxism and race has enjoyed a celebratory renaissance in recent years, becoming commonplace across the disciplines and beyond to activist and left circles.This volume contests its now enormous influence, bringing together leading scholars of Marxism to reassess the decisive question of race and Marxist thought and practice. Robinson claims in his classic work that Marxism is a Eurocentric construct that advances a false universalism unable to explain racism, and in doing so he dates racism back to ancient times and concludes that it is ingrained in the consciousness of Europeans so decisively that they are incapable of confronting racism at all.The Antinomies of Black Marxism brings together varied approaches of Marxist scholars to critique this assertion of Robinson’s, affirming that racism is a modern development of capitalist exploitation as it puts forward trenchant and uncompressing critiques of Black Marxism to reassesses Marxism and i