Black Marxism

A theoretical and historical framework developed by Cedric Robinson in his 1983 book “Black Marxism” that reinterprets Marxism through the lens of the Black Radical Tradition, arguing that capitalism’s development was deeply entangled with racialism and that Black struggles constitute an autonomous revolutionary tradition rather than a derivative of European socialism.

Claims that use this term

• Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race
• Robinson published Black Marxism while still in his thirties.
• Black Marxism received negligible scholarly engagement and citation
• Black Marxism orients its historical scholarship toward present and future action