{"product_id":"9781685901745","title":"Black Marxism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Over   the last decade, Cedric Robinson's Black Marxism: The Making of the Black   Radical Tradition has had a tremendous influence on scholars and activists   alike, deeply shaping debates on the place of race within capitalist   societies. Is race subsumed by class, with the latter the sine qua non of   capitalism? Do race and class act independently within modern societies? Or   does capitalism inevitably express a deeper racial impetus in the West? In   this, the first book-length discussion of Black Marxism, Nimtz lays out the   limits of Robinson's much-celebrated text, showing it represents a   sophisticated, but ultimately flawed, version of Black nationalism. Nimtz   defends Marxism from Robinson's accusations of myopia on matters of race,   suggesting that, in charging Marx and Engels with Eurocentrism, he either   failed to understand, or misrepresented, their work-and that, in effect, many   thinkers inspired by Black Marxism blatantly misrepresented Marxist texts.   Especially in his writings about the U.S. Civil War, Marx had far more to say   about race than is commonly understood, Nimtz shows.             An authentic Marxism, argues Nimtz, remains the most reliable real-world   method for human liberation, not least among peoples of African descent. Speaking   himself as a contemporary of Robinson's, Nimtz grounds \"Black Marxism\": A   Marxist Critique in an account of his own upbringing in New Orleans, and his   development throughout the struggles of the 1960s, explaining how and why he   came to radically different conclusions. Accessible and engaging, \"Black   Marxism\": A Marxist Critique will be a significant intervention in the   race-versus-class debate on the U.S. Left. No doubt, Nimtz's trenchant   critique will generate controversy, highlighting how more possibilities for   transracial class alliances exist than ever before-and misguided theories   like Robinson's prevent us from seeing that potential. His detailed rejoinder   to Black Marxism is much needed.\"                \"Veteran Marxist scholar and activist August Nimtz has given us in this   masterful study the most decisive intervention in many years in the   race-versus-class debate. This work could not be more timely given the   urgency of building proletarian consciousness and unity in the face of global   capitalist crisis and the threat of fascism. As Professor Nimtz put it, there   is a fundamental incompatibility between the 'Black Marxism' of Cedric   Robinson and the real Marxist project.    He shows why 'Black Marxism' is 'not only useless but in today's world   dangerous - a chimera, a faux solution.'\"-William I. Robinson, Distinguished   Professor of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47809188855860,"sku":"9781685901745","price":199.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0651\/9390\/2132\/files\/9781685901745.jpg?v=1780355561","url":"https:\/\/woodslane.com.au\/products\/9781685901745","provider":"Woodslane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}