Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson

Author:Cedric J. Robinson [Robinson, Cedric J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9780807848296
Amazon: 0807848298
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2000-01-24T05:00:00+00:00


In journalism and literary criticism they grew to be supreme, outdistancing the whites in their celebration and message of the most advanced social ideas, literary forms, and preoccupations available to an English-speaking public. Thus, when it was their turn to articulate a challenge to colonialism and racial domination, their superior education and intellect were both their rationale and their tool.56 They were, indeed, the basis for the nationalism that C. L. R. James exhibited in his first political work, The Case for West-Indian Self Government:

On his arrival in the West Indies [the colonial official] experiences a shock. Here is a thoroughly civilised community, wearing the same clothes that he does, speaking no other language but his own, with its best men as good as, and only too often, better than himself. What is the effect on the colonial Englishman when he recognises, as he has to recognise, the quality of those over whom he is placed in authority? Men have to justify themselves, and he falls heavily back on the “ability of the Anglo-Saxon to govern,” “the trusteeship of the mother country until such time” (always in the distant future) “as these colonies can stand by themselves,” etc., etc.57

For a community such as ours, where, although there is race prejudice, there is no race antagonism, where the people have reached their present level in wealth, education, and general culture, the Crown Colony system of government has no place. It was useful in its day, but that day is now over. It is a fraud, because it is based on assumptions of superiority which have no foundation in fact. Admirable as are their gifts in this direction, yet administrative capacity is not the monopoly of the English; and even if it were, charity begins at home, especially in these difficult times.58



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