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"The true proletariat was not only transnational in scope but, in some, sense, also black. Du Bois thus envisioned democratic struggles agains racial exclusion subsuming class struggles."
p.92

Nice

I'm reading the Finnish translation and I find many of Fanon's thoughts on how racism works - id. it's not a psychological trait, something that makes individual a bad person, like a box that can be ticked, but that it is historical, embodied, structural and cultural constellation - this is so relevant to 2017 and so little discussed from the militant anti-racist pespective! Or maybe it is discussed, but havent seen

Twenties was surprisingly fluid and enjoyable, it IS a page-turner. One note: I think the metaphor of Adorno as a thinker bent to "blowing holes in philosophical edifices" gets it exactly half-way right. That principle of negativity is there, he approaches systems in an aggressive or destructive way - and its catchy. But what is missed, is dialectics! Adorno always stresses dialectics, for him its "das System".

...zzz...