Below is a comment I made in response to another. The vid can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPvSaIVgMyg
The comment in question was made by Sithlordprince, and begins providentially with "An African descendant of American slavery here."
Racist drivel. Beyond the scope of reason of Pakistanis? Wow.
This is what Robinson's book is supposed to do, what its desired political effect is: justify Black racism and avert global interracial solidarity. Black Marxism gives to Blacks everywhere a racism to call their own.
This book is a racist diatribe. It essentializes Euroes in a libelous way and essentializes Afroes in a beatific way and then concocts a fictional meta-narrative to explain the interaction between the two. In it is reified a "Black Radical Tradition," which is a dream for the plutocracy. That this mythical tradition is mislabeled "radical" is no accident.
Since the dawn of century 20 and probably before, reaction has attempted, by means both fair and foul, to disassociate human misery from political economy, to provide alternative interpretations to social phenomena other than historical materialism. In early century 20, fascism was developed by global capital for just this purpose. Now that they are gone, their ideas are reconfigured and repackaged and appear in disguised form as Critical Race Theory (the word "critical" is added as a deodorant) and Black Marxism is in this neo-racist, obscurantist tradition.
I'm old now, but was engaged in radical political activism for a long time--and I mean "radical," unlike Robinson--and race is the single greatest obstacle to revolutionary change there is. The United States is a nation of racebots. Race is the answer to every question, and if one protests, as I always do, you will become a pariah.
Robinson's book is a great example. It's a reactionary tour de force. The ruling class can no longer promote racist ideas with white sheets and burning crosses or Swastika-adorned soldiers goosestepping down the strasse in Berlin, now the torch has been passed to the former victims of Klan and Nazi, which is great camouflage.
There is no Black Radical Tradition, Robinson invented the term and the phenomenon. One might entertain the idea of a Black emancipatory tradition, as that certainly exists, but that would not serve the interests of empire as that does not confound or obviate or deceive, which is the goal. The point of the misappellation is to lump reactionary elements, nationalist figures, with genuine revolutionary politics, so as to deracinate the word "radical" and to inject enough fissible material into the discourse to detonate any social movement, should it ever become one.
This Black "Radical" Tradition contains such strange bedfellows as Malcom X and Walter Rodney. These have nothing in common. They couldn't be more different. It unites the Negritudists with the Black Panthers, who are quite different politically. Robinson drones on about the insufficiency of Marxism to explain social phenomena, but then links Marxists who are Black with Black nationalists as "radicals," the Marxists are and the nationalists are not. (I once spent an hour trying to convince a Robinsonite that Stuart Hall was a orthodox Marxist. I didn't succeed.) The point, the inescapable reality is that people like Fred Hampton, Rodney, James, Hall, Dubois, Padmore, Randolph and the like are ideologically opposed to the Xs, Karengas, Cesaires, Booker Washington's etc. Lumping irreconcilably different philosophies under the rubric "radical" strips the word of its meaning and, more importantly, its revolutionary ethos. This false conflation pulls in a reactionary direction and all but precludes cooperation with non-Blacks, or at least with Whites. When put this way adherents of this BRT will deny this, but in reality, in my own personal experience, that is the effect it has.
Wittingly or not, Robinson has constructed a new racism, which serves the same purpose and financial interests as the old.
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