>"Cedric Robinson and the Origins of Race from Boston Review. As more of Robinson’s books come back into print, reading them with Black Marxism can enrich our understanding of racial capitalism and offer additional tools for fighting our political impasse."

"To truly understand what Robinson meant by racial capitalism, we must go beyond its framing as a response to Marx’s thoughts on value production. We must locate its origins in social stratification & ordering principles too—what Robinson named “

Really interesting point here on how the theoretical foregrounding of dialectics in Marx's historiography leads to the flawed teleology on the rebellious organization of the proletariat. Would not have picked this up by reading on my own.

"Robinson does not reject the political (and certainly not politics), as he believes it provides tools with which we might defend ourselves, so long as we keep in mind its contingency, that the political is '1 temporarily convenient [historical] illusion.'"