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Black Marxism has become popular among the more theory-minded public, too. Last semester, I joined a Black Marxism reading group including not only institutional scholars both grad and post-grad but also independent ones, activists, and radicals. And in the wake of rebelliousnewly radicalized readers are seeking a guidebook on how to build revolution from resistance while being grounded in a liberatory past. For all the impact the white Marxist historian had on Atlantic slavery studies, Genovese is now recalled as either old-fashioned or problematic, not least because of his reactionary turn late in life.
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With enlightemment shifting scholarly fortunes and his own shift rightward, Genovese himself fell out of fashion. More than a rebuttal of Genovese, Black Marxism shares a project with him; Robinson and Genovese both sought to recuperate Black rebellion as fully political, world-historic revolution, albeit in contrasting ways. I do not mean to suggest that Genovese is at the heart of the Black Radical Tradition or that Robinson took inspiration from a white historian. Although often necessary, such reparative assertions of revolutionary-ness simultaneously imply deep-rooted ideas about the inadequacy or apolitical nature of Black direct action. Even for some defenders of Black radicalism, rebellion needs age of enlightenment french revolution be discursively transformed into revolution.
That book does not theorize an autochthonous Black radicalism, but it remains a key text for the study of enslaved revolts.
Rereading it now alongside Black Marxism illustrates how much Robinson responds to Genovese. He asserts a historical qualitative shift in the meaning and character of Black resistance to enslavement.
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Moreover, he is emphatic that there was a long, coherent tradition of Black resistance albeit one that experienced change over time. Robinson agrees, of course, on that point.
Like W. Thus, marronage transforms from isolationist retreat into the best example of a Black alternative to racial capitalism; the long sweep of acts against racial capitalism becomes a coherent tradition with a distinctly Black origin and character.]
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