2 thoughts on “The Debt Owed By Karl Marx to African People”
When Marx talked about the enslavement of Africans being the paradigm for capitalist development, he speaks to its economic origins – always indispensable to a materialist-based analysis. Here, Africans are seen as not only enslaved laborers, but also as commodities and a form of capital itself.
I think that most of the rejection of Marxism, historically by ‘Africana’ scholars, emanates primarily from: 1) the DOCUMENTED history of white nationalism on the left, until, perhaps, very recently 2) the pro-capitalism, and capitalist-state, ties of these scholars.
When Marx talked about the enslavement of Africans being the paradigm for capitalist development, he speaks to its economic origins – always indispensable to a materialist-based analysis. Here, Africans are seen as not only enslaved laborers, but also as commodities and a form of capital itself.
I think that most of the rejection of Marxism, historically by ‘Africana’ scholars, emanates primarily from: 1) the DOCUMENTED history of white nationalism on the left, until, perhaps, very recently 2) the pro-capitalism, and capitalist-state, ties of these scholars.