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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 129–145.
Published: 01 November 2015
...Nick Nesbitt This essay argues that Aimé Césaire remained committed to a nonaligned, tricontinental Marxism well beyond his resignation from the Parti Communiste Français in 1956. It describes this commitment positively in relation to “black Jacobinism” as well as the limitations of Césaire's...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (1 (49)): 47–61.
Published: 01 March 2016
... of both Marxism and the engagement by black intellectuals of the issues of labor and class. Moving beyond the presuppositions of liberal humanism, Marxism, and Black Cultural Nationalism, Wynter put forth an interpretation of the cultural forms of blacks in the Americas (both as slaves and postslavery...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 86–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to Césaire's poetic legacy, his theory of Negritude, his relationship to Marxism, and his intellectual partnership with his wife, Suzanne Césaire. What emerges is a sense of Césaire's legacy as a living legacy, firmly rooted in a specific historical context but revealing different facets of its structure...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 1–17.
Published: 01 July 2014
... grotesquely comical. Antiwork Marxism encourages us to laugh at this moralism, to take it for the farcical tragedy that it is, and to imagine new forms of life. If we listen carefully, we can detect in this laughter—resounding through Marx, James, and Negri—the resonant echo of free blacks in Jamaica...
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Small Axe (2009) 13 (1): 217–229.
Published: 01 March 2009
... of Karl Marx is as fitting a statement of the nature of her politics as of her life. A number of scholars have tried to identify the contours of this black radical tradition. Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism perhaps has the most explicit detailing of its historiography, in chapters titled...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): vii–x.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to the left in Jamaica—in particular, Michael Manley’s socialist turn in 1974—that Charles decided to write his dissertation on Marxism and ideology (certainly a burning issue among the Left at the time). But then, even as he graduated in 1985, PhD on Marxism in hand, the global historical ground beneath his...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2019
... that speaks to what I believe MacIntyre is saying. For more than the content of what James said to me that morning (about Marxism or literature, for example, two of our topics), it was the moral movement of his mind that captivated me, the sense I had, sitting in that close but ordered little room, of an old...
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Small Axe (2001) 5 (2): 85–177.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., William Morris, nor from aaxexe that Martinican revolutionary, Frantz Fanon, but from Russell Jacoby, a radical Ameri- can social critic. Roughly twenty years ago he wrote an important book called Dialectic of Defeat in which he explored, along the terrain of Western Marxism...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 18–34.
Published: 01 July 2018
... emerge from the very practice of democracy. Indeed, by the time he returned to Trinidad, James had broken with the teleological assumptions guiding “scientific” Marxism, a break that began, if only embryonically, in Notes on Dialectics , but that took on full force in his writing on the 1956 Hungarian...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 186–204.
Published: 01 November 2015
... to make an appearance. But what does Copeland mean by that word appear ? Copeland takes his title from Cedric Robinson's critical tour de force, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition , and specifically a synoptic passage in which Robinson explains the ways the effects of racism...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (2 (62)): 197–207.
Published: 01 July 2020
..., but not always, ride with the caravan of black Marxism. 5 Though by no means internally consistent, much of this thought shares and asserts a number of hardcore assumptions: that there is an implicit connection between racist practice and capitalist history and that the effects of this connection are at once...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): 228–238.
Published: 01 November 2020
... on black Marxism, Minkah Makalani cautions against positivist projections into what he describes as a “knowable future” that presumes a world better than the present or the past and yet relies on language, notions, and ideas that have served to colonize and subjugate people of African descent. 45 He...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 100–108.
Published: 01 March 2015
... and of racialization in the context of advanced globalization. 13 Finally, the book Le populisme autoritaire sets out Hall's critical views on Thatcherism and Blairism, principally through texts published in Marxism Today and New Left Review . This phase of translation initiates a more diversified reception...
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Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): vii–xiv.
Published: 01 March 2019
... weight of dialectically determining history” (187). In this view, event is the key term in Badiou’s war against the “historicism” of various Marxisms—including Hegelian, economistic, and Heideggarian Marxisms. Badiou’s fundamental problem with historicism, Wright tells us, is that it reduces truth...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 88–99.
Published: 01 March 2015
... to think in unorthodox ways about our own historical situation and condition? How did West Indian intellectuals come to understand who we were in the world, across space and time? In reading Hall's theoretical and political work closely, it became clear to me that Marxism provided him with a framework...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (1 (46)): 109–117.
Published: 01 March 2015
.../Decoding” and Marxism, as well as the idea of identity, most often used in the analysis of subcultures rather than the cultural politics he favored. Without an appreciation of Hall's focus on conjuncture, his Marxism is read as that of the wishful thinkers, political activists, and academics who...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 1–6.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of a black Marxism (as, say, Cedric Robinson and Robin Kelley might think of it) 8 it opened up a conceptual space in which to think the anti-imperialist and socialist implications of Europe's exploitation of Africa and its transplantation and enslavement of its peoples in the New World. Less well known...
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Small Axe (2015) 19 (2 (47)): 177–184.
Published: 01 July 2015
... Press, 2009). 9 Wainwright quotes Jean Fisher, Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts (London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 1994), 33. 10 Raymond Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), 132. © Small Axe, Inc...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 43–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
... of British Marxisms. 22 The wider conjuncture encompassed the rapid changes in postwar British society, of which the advent of mass consumerism, Britain's decline as an imperial power, the growth of youth cultures, and diasporas from the colonies (Hall calls them “the new black British diasporas...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (3 (63)): vii–x.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Plan? Manley, perhaps, had already decided—the former over the latter. These were crucial years for my own intellectual evolution, away from experiments with Rastafari toward experiments with Marxism, in many ways made possible by a remarkable teacher at Jamaica College, Wesley Van Riel, who taught...