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Were the Beatles Cultural Marxists.

Cedric J. Robinson's Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition is not merely a work of scholarship but a monumental intellectual challenge to the assumptions of traditional Marxist thought and Eurocentric histories of struggle.
    Robinson crafts a powerful narrative that illuminates how Black resistance has always been distinct, rooted in cultural memory, and shaped by the lived realities of oppression and liberation.
   This book is both deeply academic and profoundly personal for anyone seeking to understand the intersection of race, capitalism, and global liberation movements.
Here are eight lessons that reshaped my understanding of history and radical thought:
1. Black Radicalism Is Not Born from Marxism
    Robinson dismantles the idea that Black liberation movements simply mimic Marxist frameworks. Instead, he highlights how they emerge organically from centuries of cultural, social, and spiritual resistance.
2. Capitalism and Racism Are Inseparable
    Rather than viewing racism as a byproduct of capitalism, Robinson argues that racism is deeply embedded in its very foundation. The exploitation of Black bodies was intrinsic to the development of global capitalism.
3. Eurocentrism Limits Revolutionary Thought
    Western revolutionary theories often dismiss the unique experiences and contributions of non-European peoples. Robinson challenges this erasure, asserting that Black communities have long crafted their own radical traditions.
4. History Is a Weapon of Resistance
    By reclaiming historical narratives, marginalized communities can challenge the myths that uphold systems of power. Robinson’s meticulous research reminds us that history is both a site of oppression and liberation.
5. Culture Is Central to Liberation
    The book underscores how cultural expressions—songs, stories, and spiritual practices—are not just coping mechanisms but radical acts of defiance that sustain movements for freedom.
6. The Struggle Is Global
    Robinson traces connections between Black resistance in the Americas, Africa, and beyond, revealing a shared global consciousness among oppressed peoples fighting for liberation.
7. Liberation Requires New Theories of Change
    The book critiques traditional socialist frameworks, urging us to develop revolutionary strategies that center the specific needs and histories of Black and other marginalized peoples.
8. Hope Lives in Collective Resistance
    Despite its rigorous critique, Black Marxism offers a vision of hope rooted in the resilience of communities that have always found ways to resist, survive, and dream of better futures.
Cedric J. Robinson’s Black Marxism is essential reading for those ready to question the narratives they've been told and seek deeper truths about resistance, race, and revolution.
   If you’re willing to grapple with complex ideas and confront uncomfortable truths, Black Marxism promises revelations that will forever change how you understand liberation.
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It WILL BE in the test, kids.

Yes, ALSO IN THE TEST,  endorsement of Professor Lentin's book:

‘An extraordinary theoretical and methodological engagement with Cedric Robinson’s indispensable conceptualization of “racial regimes.” Simultaneously an intellectual tribute and expansive explication, The New Racial Regime works from an archival foundation of Black and Indigenous, liberationist and anti-colonialist thinkers, honing analytical tools that make sense of the ongoing racial reconstructionist moment’

– Dylan Rodríguez, author of White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide

‘A vital and well-written analysis of the regimes of racial capitalism that have reinvented themselves within the past decade. Lentin’s analysis of white supremacy’s dynamism and durability is incisive and she offers readers terrific suggestions about how to organize for change in a world where evil sometimes feels insurmountable’

– Steven Salaita, author of An Honest Living: A Memoir of Peculiar Itineraries

‘Thinking through and with Cedric Robinson’s framework of “racial regime”, Alana Lentin offers a powerful reminder that, without an emphatic rejection of colonialism and imperialism, white supremacy, Zionism, and antiblack racial oppression will endure in our intellectual and political projects. Accessible, rigorous, and unequivocal, The New Racial Regime is the principled treatise we sorely need in this “time of monsters”‘

– Charisse Burden-Stelly, author of Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States

‘A crucial theorisation of the new “racial regime”, where fervent support for genocide, and the rejection of racial equality have become components of a new common sense. From the war on critical race theory, through to the legitimation of genocide through a discourse of “decolonization”, Lentin’s book offers deep insights into just how deep the new racial regime characterises our new social landscape. Social problems of our time need to be theorized, and Lentin’s book provides us with the vital theorization we need in order to fight back’

– Ali Meghji, Associate Professor in Social Inequalities, University of Cambridge

‘With intellectual rigor and moral urgency, this book dismantles the myths of liberal progress and reveals the recalibrations of white supremacy in the modern era. Lentin’s work is a valuable tool for any policy based on a genuine theory of racism’

– Houria Bouteldja, author of Rednecks and Barbarians: Uniting the White and Racialized Working Class

‘What an extraordinarily instructive and timely book! Again and again, The New Racial Regime reveals the internal logics and methods of racial regimes and how they reproduce themselves, and in turn, reproduce the cultural and governing logic of capitalism – one that extracts, exploits and subjugates. By taking up Zionism to further interrogate the racial logic of governing, Lentin demonstrates the ways in which racial regimes are indeed inventive, indispensable to capitalism, and deadly’

– H.L.T. Quan, author of Become Ungovernable: An Abolition Feminist Ethic for Democratic Living

Marxism is about resentment.

Its methods are deployed by all the resentment merchants - race, 'gender', [your pressings identity here] bozos.

Frank wrote on Oct 27^th, 2025 at 7:22pm:


Marxism almost doesn't exist in any meaningful way.

Even Groucho is long dead.

Argentina President Javier Milei: “You can’t give shite leftards a single inch”

Reporter: “Why do you call leftists ‘shite’?”

Milei: “Because they are shite! They will kill you! If you give them an inch, they will destroy you! You can't negotiate with leftists. You don't negotiate with trash because they will end you.”

https://x.com/RealSaavedra/status/1982646315583483974

He's on fire. 👍


"It's easy to be a socialist in a liberal country. Not easy to be a liberal in a socialist country".

Frank wrote on Oct 28^th, 2025 at 11:55am:


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He is unhinged.