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His interpretation of the Black Radical tradition as the "shared sense of obligation to preserve the collective being, the ontological totality", felt like it came out of the blue. I am not convinced that the evidence of the previous chapters supports such strong claims or that a metaphysical framing is appropriate.
— Oct 22, 2023 07:45PM
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Oct 22, 2023 10:48PM
Right? He goes so easily from identifying moments of tension and blind spots in the socialist movement vis a vis racialized populations and then simply inverts those spots into a cohesive Black project. Strangely absent-minded for a book this well-researched.
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It feels like he's fighting some inter-Foucauldian academic battles without naming his theoretical tools or his interlocutors. He also said in an interview that he thinks of Black Marxism as an anarchist response to Black nationalism, but that doesn't come through clearly.
