Black Marxism : The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

Foreword xi Robin D. G. Kelley Preface to the 2000 Edition xxvii Preface xxxv Acknowledgments xxxvii Introduction 1(8) Part 1 The Emergence and Limitations of European Radicalism Racial Capitalism: The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development 9(20) Europe's Formation 10(3) The First Bourgeoisie 13(5) The Modern World Bourgeoisie 18(3) The Lower Orders 21(3) The Effects of Western Civilization on Capitalism 24(5) The English Working Class as the Mirror of Production 29(16) Poverty and Industrial Capitalism 31(2) The Reaction of English Labor 33(3) The Colonization of Ireland 36(3) English Working-Class Consciousness and the Irish Worker 39(2) The Proletariat and the English Working Class 41(4) Socialist Theory and Nationalism 45(26) Socialist Thought: Negation of Feudalism or Capitalism? 46(3) From Babeuf to Marx: A Curious Historiography 49(3) Marx, Engels, and Nationalism 52(10) Marxism and Nationalism 62(3) Conclusion 65(6) Part 2 The Roots of Black Radicalism The Process and Consequences of Africa's Transmutation 71(30) The Diminution of the Diaspora 72(2) The Primary Colors of American Historical Thought 74(7) The Destruction of the African Past 81(1) Premodern Relations between Africa and Europe 82(1) The Mediterranean: Egypt, Greece, and Rome 83(2) The Dark Ages: Europe and Africa 85(2) Islam, Africa, and Europe 87(2) Europe and the Eastern Trade 89(2) Islam and the Making of Portugal 91(6) Islam and Eurocentrism 97(4) The Atlantic Slave Trade and African Labor 101(20) The Genoese Bourgeoisie and the Age of Discovery 103(3) Genoese Capital, the Atlantic, and a Legend 106(3) African Labor as Capital 109(2) The Ledgers of a World System 111(5) The Column Marked ``British Capitalism'' 116(5) The Historical Archaeology of the Black Radical Tradition 121(46) History and the Mere Slave 123(2) Reds, Whites, and Blacks 125(3) Black for Red 128(2) Black Resistance: The Sixteenth Century 130(2) Palmares and Seventeenth-Century Marronage 132(8) Black Resistance in North America 140(4) The Haitian Revolution 144(5) Black Brazil and Resistance 149(6) Resistance in the British West Indies 155(9) Africa: Revolt at the Source 164(3) The Nature of the Black Radical Tradition 167(8) Part 3 Black Radicalism and Marxist Theory The Formation of an Intelligentsia 175(10) Capitalism, Imperialism, and the Black Middle Classes 177(4) Western Civilization and the Renegade Black Intelligentsia 181(4) Historiography and the Black Radical Tradition 185(56) Du Bois and the Myths of National History 185(10) Du Bois and the Reconstruction of History and American Political Thought 195(4) Slavery and Capitalism 199(1) Labor, Capitalism, and Slavery 200(3) Slavery and Democracy 203(2) Reconstruction and the Black Elite 205(2) Du Bois, Marx, and Marxism 207(1) Bolshevism and American Communism 208(4) Black Nationalism 212(6) Blacks and Communism 218(10) Du Bois and Radical Theory 228(13) C. L. R. James and the Black Radical Tradition 241(46) Black Labor and the Black Middle Classes in Trinidad 241(10) The Black Victorian Becomes a Black Jacobin 251(6) British Socialism 257(3) Black Radicals in the Metropole 260(10) The Theory of the Black Jacobin 270(8) Coming to Terms with the Marxist Tradition 278(9) Richard Wright and the Critique of Class Theory 287(20) Marxist Theory and the Black Radical Intellectual 287(4) The Novel as Politics 291(2) Wright's Social Theory 293(6) Blacks as the Negation of Capitalism 299(2) The Outsider as a Critique of Christianity and Marxism 301(6) An Ending 307(12) Notes 319(90) Bibliography 409(22) Index 431