Claudia Jones: Left of Karl Marx with Dr. Carole Boyce Davies

Dr. Carole Boyce Davies joined us this morning for a discussion of the life, work and continuing relevance of Claudia Jones.  Boyce-Davies’ book, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, provided us a nice basis from which to discuss primarily, as she writes, “Recovering the Radical Black Female Subject,” along with other…

Read more

Neoliberalism & Toxic Identity Politics

By Tom Watts “Throughout the history of human knowledge, there have been two conceptions concerning the law of development of the universe, the metaphysical conception and the dialectical conception, which form two opposing world outlooks.” Mao Tse-tung, “On Contradiction” Every idea is stamped with the world view of a particular class and in this epoch,…

Read more