Don’t switch up the approach! I love the way you deliver information. I would recommend bullet points of key ideas so it’s easier to take notes and showing the primary sources if they’re books.
Hey I love the topic but I feel like breaking the various topics into different parts might be more useful. Also perhaps you should mix your theory and academic approach with a relatable approach. I think that will help in understanding.
Yeah I'm super interested in this, but it's after midnight here and I've had my night weed and tried hard to concentrate enough but it would be cool to chill and still be able to listen and learn haha
@@Persnikity-yv3nh Yeah! It's all about preference and how much you want to listen or not. I can't follow the most fun and subway surfing video when I'm tired anyway but then I have to chose to watch the video earlier
i really love this essay / video, the process of socialization of labor and ownership in general is a subject that i always have trouble having a hard and fast opinion about because it’s very nuanced and hard to identify, and also because - even if you take a completely materialist view - i always end up thinking that gramsci showed that there are always implications in the cultural dimension, but it is very delicate in my opinion because engaging in that kind of cultural turn thinking can “defang” revolutionary movements, the state of much of the left in western universities today is a good example of this, but there is always something lost with a completely materialist view - at least in its current development, so i really appreciate how you covered so much ground and elucidated what many had to say on a manifestation of this
Selam solyana. I stumbled across your channel and started going through your catalogue after seeing this videos, to find thay you've made videos about Ethiopia which is much needed on this platform, betam amesegenalew (the video on emahoy was beautiful). Looking forward for what is in store for this channel! (Also, i really appreciate the high academic standard of your videos)
Hey, Soly! You may not remember but we went to middle school together, and I was surprised to see you makin’ content. So cool! Congratulations on the F.D. shoutout! I love your presentation here & can’t wait to see more.
thank you for the video and was super tuned in on the Claudia Jones section (now I gotta read everything about the production of Nottingham Carnival lol) I think coming off your analysis and analysis from these writers' on racial capitalism, its benefits vs weak points and its position in constellations of the larger effort against domination and exploitation I do wonder if it is a truly overarching framework vs a crucial, useful, Site of Context in the Millenia+ project of Megamachines*. I'm thinking in a similar fashion as Surveillance Capitalism, the purpose of the racialization in the current practice of Capital and Empire is inherent to the larger project, though no less vital, violent nor all sorts of messy. I believe Fanon, Marx, and various others saw capitalism as the current language we speak of this longterm exploitation but that it has existed since the early city-state-plannings and in any pocket of the ancient world where palace economies or otherwise hierarchical central powers dominated massive amounts of people and ecology in the effort to amass wealth or endeavor in projects benefiting elite ruling ideologies. These all similarly relied on Race/Class difference making and surveillance/control. Readings of Fanon's criticisms of nationalism and its ends, it seems to suggest this was partially his meaning imo. In a strived-towards egalitarian society how can these tendencies be curbed? Congrats on the A, grad school no joke 🫡 Wondering if you've engaged much with the black pessimist or degrowth movements and were maybe planning on writing/doing channel stuff in relation? (🤞)
brilliant work! I've had a similar curiosity about the way that popular media has tied 'identity politics' to the combahee river collective and 'intersectionality' to Kimberlee Crenshaw (both with the occasional comment that maybe these ideas go back further to another work like for example, Angela Davis's Women, Race, and Class). Surely these ideas likewise actually go back much further to at least the early twentieth century? This also makes me wonder if there's a critique of genealogy as a method to be had here. Is the issue superficial 'popular' genealogies that focus too narrowly on the first use of a specific term (almost turning genealogy into etymology)? Or is there a problem with the genealogical method's ability to account for the complexity of the genesis of ideas. (For example, I imagine that a kind of cross-pollination from things like Zillah Eisenstein's 'Capitalist Patriarchy' probably had an effect on 'Racial Capitalism's conceptual development, though not a direct genealogical one. and vice versa of course). I'll also say that for me these thoughts/suspicions of genealogy in relation to intersectionality and identity politics probably started from reading Amia Srinivisan's treatment in one chapter of The Right to Sex, where she mentions Davis, and another interview with her on RUclips somewhere where she mentions separately that she's been working on a critique of genealogy (though im not sure if she meant a critique of it as methodology, or if the critique would be in relation to intersectionality or identity politics, but thats how these ideas came to me). Anyway, you might not even be interested in identity politics or intersectionality, but i'd love to see a similar video done about those concepts if you are.
Admirable essay!! Could someone write down all the references mentioned in the beginning? I'm spanish and neither me or youtube managed to understand the names and titles porperly jajajajaja. I'm interested on the ideas and would like to read them by myself. Thank for introducing me to this movement!!
Thoughtful video. Very well done. As a person who has definitely not engaged with theory at the capacity or with the scholarship you have, I humbly recommend Race Craft, by Karen and Barbara Fields. If you have read this already, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Thanks for putting in the effort to share your work with the public!
I HAVE THAT BOOK! It helped me create a long form video essay on radical thought creating authoritarian children.. Cedric was friends with Kamala Harris’s mommy.
Well damn, Dr. Solyana (whether you're a PhD or not, I'm treating it as a foregone conclusion. In the event you aren't one, you'll be one soon enough)! Your analysis is definitely on point. At the risk of being bougie, in the neoliberal academic sense, both your analysis and genealogy of Robinson's RC warrants publication. If you haven't already, you should submit your paper for publication--either open access without peer-review or peer-reviewed
I rewatched after watching Robin D. G. Kelley take on it he used examples, which helped. I don’t know maybe it was the audio and the title of the video confused me I thought she was dissing the idea some of references made were contributions to her evidence then denounced a bit. It very elitist type riding it’s for working person or a normie to just catch on. I’m not a normie I constantly watch content like this but it was hard to catch on.
You just popped up in my recommendeds. I'm busy rn, but just subscribed & I'm coming back in a few to watch. Let's get you to 1k subs (at 903 while I type this).
Great information! Though this feels like getting a research paper read aloud to me, and I don't digest those very well... I think I would understand this topic on a deeper level if the language was more approachable 🙃
hey~~really rocking with the work you're doing here, and am grateful for the way you're connecting the work of black anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist thought across time and different contexts and countries. though I'm struggling a bit to keep up with where you're at in your survey/argument as you speak and work through the ideas. if you're open to suggestions for future essays--am wondering if it would be useful to make the essay you wrote accessible to folks so they can follow along as you read. maybe you can share a link to a google doc just like you did for your sources? or, if theres capacity for you to do so, you could maybe put parts of the essay on the screen as you read? maybe you dont have to do this for the whole essay, just for sections that seem critical for the connections you're making? I think what other commenters have offered would be helpful too, especially the suggestions to spend time breaking down some of the ideas. if we really want revolution, these ideas gotta become more accessible to folks outside institutions. I'm struggling to pull it off in my own work though, so I know how difficult the work of accessibility can be. 🥴
All these vids gives off my auntie 😂😂 my radical auntie. Cool topics, would like an analysis of Ethiopianism and it's pre-existance prior to Pan-Africanism. Let's try to be objective and not put down our people though. Academic integrity. Merci!
Salaam from flint Michigan I love this video sister but it’s a little too complex for me subscribed, can you make a video that’s the same thing except more simple. What is “resan des” ? And where does it come from?
So would it be correct to synopsize your thesis as 'racism is intrinsic to capitalism'? That they cannot exist without the other? If yes, that makes sense to me. The so-called liberalism and indivualism of Capitalism fits nicely in the framework of a 'winner takes all' economic system as opposed to the communalism emphasized by socialism. That hierarchy and division (racial or otherwise) are the foundations of Capitalism, not incidental features. And talking about Capitalism in the fashion of class reductionists is nonsense in the face of historical evidence and lived experience?
The "Black Marxist" perspective on the development of class society is basically historical revisionism. And it doesn't accurately describe recent history either. I've rented here in Canada for 30yrs and of the dozens of landlords I've had (land lord = feudalism never really ended) zero were "white". There were more than 83,000 documented cases of "white" British children being forcibly sent to Canada to work right into the 1940s, compared to 4,200 documented enslaved Africans. Black men and white men got the right to vote at the same time in Canada. The first governor of British Columbia was mixed Afro-Caribbean and offered the same homesteading rights that were offered to European settlers to formerly enslaved black Americans, which is one of the reasons Canada was the end of the Underground Railroad, despite also having segregated schools, for example, in parts of Southern Ontario and Nova Scotia. So some of the Gulf Islands (called the San Juan Islands in your country) were first settled by formerly enslaved black Americans. I could go on and on with examples of how the history of North America and the history of the development of modern class society don't fit at all neatly into race-based analyses. Ultimately, just like solely class based analyses, race-based analyses can't give you all the answers. And unfortunately there are no current critical theories that are helping combat the rise of right wing populism and possibly even outright fascism. And that's because they lead to broken, sloganistic concepts like "white privilege" , which is essentially crab-in-a-bucket politics.
The Laws of Physics do not care about Race. The history of the last 550 years has been a record of who had technology versus who did not. What has Thomas Sowell said about planned obsolescence and the Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods? He did not use the word 'depreciation' a single time in his book, "Basic Economics". The problem is the NET Domestic Product! Economists do not talk about it. Economists only subtract the depreciation of Capital Goods from GDP and claim that is NDP. But the Laws of Physics do not care and cannot tell the difference between Capital and Consumer Goods. So since World War Two we have been running THE WORLD on defective Algebra. Make consumer junk to add to GDP and ignore the depreciation. Going into debt to buy the junk is thereby paying interest on the depreciation. Nothing but high technology share cropping. There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995. At $1,500 of depreciation per vehicle that comes to…. NDP = GDP - Dcap (official economic delusion) NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) (reality) Dcap == Depreciation of Capital Goods Dcon == Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods GDP == Grossly Distorted Propaganda Oh wait, when has the economics profession talked about that? Must be irrelevant, like planned obsolescence.
Instead of this could you not just admit capitalism subsists from most crude- and cheaply controlling productive forces? It (let alone as imperialism) relies on infringing on workers by wearing them down and pitting them against each other through imposing artificial tensions. Why not just promote cbernetics and publically curse those who derailed it for something much less scientific that clearly doesn’t give more expression to any laws of physics.
This is why we read history, to learn what people have tried and what has happened. Given the current world order, it would require extreme vigilance and organization to prevent superiorly resourced capitalist countries, especially the U.S., which loves coups, from sabotaging the effort, whether through overt military action or covert espionage.
This is not really viewer accessible, too much irrelevant information, not enough examples, very speedy, cannot isolate main points, sounds more like shopping list reading.
Aka capitalism which inherently embraces (really fake) contradictions it can arbitrate for profit. Cheap(ly controlled) labor. There’s no balancing act that’s going to effectively stop it compared to systemically putting people over profits.
Much of Africa’s history is explained by its fragile soils and erratic weather. They make for conservative social and political systems. The communities which endured were those that directed available energies primarily towards minimizing the risk of failure, not maximizing returns. This created societies designed for survival, not development; the qualities needed for survival are the opposite of those needed for developing, ie, making experiments and taking risks. Some societies were wealthy, but accumulating wealth was next to impossible; most people bartered and there were few traders. In fact, there were few people. Whereas the rest of the world tended to butt up against Malthusian limits on the amount of food that the burgeoning population could wrest from the ground, tropical Africa had plenty of land but strikingly few people. The problem was that African humans had a hard time outcompeting other living things in Africa, such as diseases (falciparum malaria and sleeping sickness, most notably) and giant beasts (such as elephants). To put this in Darwinian terms, humanity not only evolved in Africa, but, unfortunately for the humans, co-evolved along with animals and germs, which gave humanity’s rivals a more than fighting chance. When humans arrived in the New World, in contrast, we killed and ate the local elephants (wooly mammoths) in short order because they didn’t understand how dangerous these two-legged creatures with pointy sticks were to them. In Africa, the elephants had seen us coming for millions of years and had time to evolve behavioral defenses against us. A herd of elephants seems cute to us in America today, but one can eat an entire African village’s crop of food in a day, leaving it starving. So humans and elephants in Africa tended to form patchworks of habitation, with humans only living in areas where they could muster enough density of population to drive off the elephants and giraffes and predators. But too high a density of population, such as in cities, made people sitting ducks for diseases borne by mosquitoes and tsetse flies. The germs in tropical Africa were even worse than the megafauna. Thomas Pakenham’s 1998 review of John Reader’s book in the New York Times explains: "Why did Africa south of the Sahara fare so badly in the last three millenniums? Reader explains Africa’s handicaps in terms of disease and climate. He contrasts the happy colonists who ”by leaving the tropical environments of the cradle-land in which humanity had evolved . . . also left behind the many parasites and disease organisms that had evolved in parallel with the human species.” Up to a point, this must be right. In the African Garden of Eden lurked enemies all the more potent because they were invisible: the malaria bug and other lethal organisms. The liberation of Africa from these enemies began with the period of European exploitation and has continued, somewhat haphazardly, as European drugs are exported to Africa."
You made some good points about why africans didn't advance technologically or scientifically like other people in differents parts of the world but your vision about africans fragility against diseases is an Eurocentric false vision and historically inexact because africans didn't suffer from diseases like europeans with the plague epidemic that reduced the numbers of their population by more than half in less than 5 years. Africans had incestral advanced medecine and in addition they also developed Immunity in their biological systems through exposure to their environment bacterias.
You said racial capitalism, stupid. I think racial is a divide and conquer tactic this only leads to competitive struggle on who is more important because they were oppressed more. It is a infantile way of thinking in the struggle against capitalism when materially capital turns to imperialism and objectively every group can be dominated.
Just watch from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. The creation of an "other" allows for the devaluing of the other. She mentions this goes back to other groups such as Jewish people. In western civilization black people were brought across the Caribbean as slaves and seen as less than human... aka other. Captialism thrived off of the creation and deviation of race. While there are a lot of socialist policies that would uplolift everyone, I think its a disservice to cast aside such a fundamental part of capitalisms success when we are talking about history and studying the subject.
- It would be helpful to note that black people are not the ones who are using race to divide and conquer. The fact is, that is the way our society exist. I think it is necessary to realize the history of blacks in amerikkka, and what scholars and activist have had to say about it. With an understanding of that history, and what they have said as a way forward, we can learn and build on their thoughts and plans with hopes of dismantling and freeing ourselves from our oppressor.
Black people don't have the luxury of ignoring the racial aspect of oppression. Especially in the context of the USA the white working class, has been always willing to do the bidding of the elites. Only 2% of white Americans owned enslaved people, yet the practice existed for centuries because at least 90% of whites were invested in maintaining the system of exploitation.
Real. I'm African and there is no such thing as racial capitalism, it's either you're rich or not, but going off the video I'm pretty sure she's an Afro Centrist, the worst kind.
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FD that you?!!!😢
Am here from your rec, cheers!
What an honor! Thank you so much for the shout-out. And will do!
Here from your rec - good one! Thanks Brotha!
AHH!! love this!!! So this is why I got recommended the video!! Good good algorithm!
Don’t switch up the approach! I love the way you deliver information. I would recommend bullet points of key ideas so it’s easier to take notes and showing the primary sources if they’re books.
Please make more videos. Your vocals are clear as well as your thoughts with no filler. Thank you for taking the time to share this information
So glad this came across my timeline. I will be revisiting all of Robinson's work this year alongside Wynter! Subbed!
Hey I love the topic but I feel like breaking the various topics into different parts might be more useful. Also perhaps you should mix your theory and academic approach with a relatable approach. I think that will help in understanding.
Yeah I'm super interested in this, but it's after midnight here and I've had my night weed and tried hard to concentrate enough but it would be cool to chill and still be able to listen and learn haha
I just treated it like a college lecture :) This is one of her grad school essays
@@Persnikity-yv3nh Yeah! It's all about preference and how much you want to listen or not. I can't follow the most fun and subway surfing video when I'm tired anyway but then I have to chose to watch the video earlier
WE LOVE THE FLAAAAAGGG! Also first time seeing you. Not even a min in. I'm here for it. KEEP THE POSTING GOING!!! I SAID KEEP IT GOING! okay🤎🤝🤎
Love the title 😂😂😂😂 F.D Signifier referred us to you🙌🏾🙌🏾
here from unc FD, you deserve thos subs and exposure, this is a great video, I hope you will upload more
thank you :)
I feel like this summary video is a must for anybody dabling into lefty/marxist thought. Instant classic
Im so glad F.D. Signifier recommended you. Instant follow, I look forward to your future lectures 🇨🇦❤
i really love this essay / video, the process of socialization of labor and ownership in general is a subject that i always have trouble having a hard and fast opinion about because it’s very nuanced and hard to identify, and also because - even if you take a completely materialist view - i always end up thinking that gramsci showed that there are always implications in the cultural dimension, but it is very delicate in my opinion because engaging in that kind of cultural turn thinking can “defang” revolutionary movements, the state of much of the left in western universities today is a good example of this, but there is always something lost with a completely materialist view - at least in its current development, so i really appreciate how you covered so much ground and elucidated what many had to say on a manifestation of this
Selam solyana. I stumbled across your channel and started going through your catalogue after seeing this videos, to find thay you've made videos about Ethiopia which is much needed on this platform, betam amesegenalew (the video on emahoy was beautiful). Looking forward for what is in store for this channel! (Also, i really appreciate the high academic standard of your videos)
Hey, Soly! You may not remember but we went to middle school together, and I was surprised to see you makin’ content. So cool! Congratulations on the F.D. shoutout! I love your presentation here & can’t wait to see more.
Hi Mike!! Yes of course i remember you. It's good to hear from you. Thanks soo much for the support
thank you for the video and was super tuned in on the Claudia Jones section (now I gotta read everything about the production of Nottingham Carnival lol) I think coming off your analysis and analysis from these writers' on racial capitalism, its benefits vs weak points and its position in constellations of the larger effort against domination and exploitation I do wonder if it is a truly overarching framework vs a crucial, useful, Site of Context in the Millenia+ project of Megamachines*. I'm thinking in a similar fashion as Surveillance Capitalism, the purpose of the racialization in the current practice of Capital and Empire is inherent to the larger project, though no less vital, violent nor all sorts of messy. I believe Fanon, Marx, and various others saw capitalism as the current language we speak of this longterm exploitation but that it has existed since the early city-state-plannings and in any pocket of the ancient world where palace economies or otherwise hierarchical central powers dominated massive amounts of people and ecology in the effort to amass wealth or endeavor in projects benefiting elite ruling ideologies. These all similarly relied on Race/Class difference making and surveillance/control. Readings of Fanon's criticisms of nationalism and its ends, it seems to suggest this was partially his meaning imo. In a strived-towards egalitarian society how can these tendencies be curbed?
Congrats on the A, grad school no joke 🫡 Wondering if you've engaged much with the black pessimist or degrowth movements and were maybe planning on writing/doing channel stuff in relation? (🤞)
Great video.
Not to gas your head….this is amazing
brilliant work! I've had a similar curiosity about the way that popular media has tied 'identity politics' to the combahee river collective and 'intersectionality' to Kimberlee Crenshaw (both with the occasional comment that maybe these ideas go back further to another work like for example, Angela Davis's Women, Race, and Class). Surely these ideas likewise actually go back much further to at least the early twentieth century? This also makes me wonder if there's a critique of genealogy as a method to be had here. Is the issue superficial 'popular' genealogies that focus too narrowly on the first use of a specific term (almost turning genealogy into etymology)? Or is there a problem with the genealogical method's ability to account for the complexity of the genesis of ideas. (For example, I imagine that a kind of cross-pollination from things like Zillah Eisenstein's 'Capitalist Patriarchy' probably had an effect on 'Racial Capitalism's conceptual development, though not a direct genealogical one. and vice versa of course). I'll also say that for me these thoughts/suspicions of genealogy in relation to intersectionality and identity politics probably started from reading Amia Srinivisan's treatment in one chapter of The Right to Sex, where she mentions Davis, and another interview with her on RUclips somewhere where she mentions separately that she's been working on a critique of genealogy (though im not sure if she meant a critique of it as methodology, or if the critique would be in relation to intersectionality or identity politics, but thats how these ideas came to me). Anyway, you might not even be interested in identity politics or intersectionality, but i'd love to see a similar video done about those concepts if you are.
Why are you sayin, that all parts of the diaspora are the USA, the Carribbean and Africa? What’s about Latin America?
Admirable essay!! Could someone write down all the references mentioned in the beginning? I'm spanish and neither me or youtube managed to understand the names and titles porperly jajajajaja. I'm interested on the ideas and would like to read them by myself. Thank for introducing me to this movement!!
Thoughtful video. Very well done. As a person who has definitely not engaged with theory at the capacity or with the scholarship you have, I humbly recommend Race Craft, by Karen and Barbara Fields. If you have read this already, I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Thanks for putting in the effort to share your work with the public!
I HAVE THAT BOOK! It helped me create a long form video essay on radical thought creating authoritarian children.. Cedric was friends with Kamala Harris’s mommy.
Well damn, Dr. Solyana (whether you're a PhD or not, I'm treating it as a foregone conclusion. In the event you aren't one, you'll be one soon enough)! Your analysis is definitely on point.
At the risk of being bougie, in the neoliberal academic sense, both your analysis and genealogy of Robinson's RC warrants publication. If you haven't already, you should submit your paper for publication--either open access without peer-review or peer-reviewed
Girl you are doing so good I love seeing my people build their careers from the ground up keep up the good work you are going to be big soon
I know nothing about any of this but vids dope. Honest work
This was amazing ! Thank you Queen #STAYGODLY
I rewatched after watching Robin D. G. Kelley take on it he used examples, which helped. I don’t know maybe it was the audio and the title of the video confused me I thought she was dissing the idea some of references made were contributions to her evidence then denounced a bit. It very elitist type riding it’s for working person or a normie to just catch on. I’m not a normie I constantly watch content like this but it was hard to catch on.
You just popped up in my recommendeds. I'm busy rn, but just subscribed & I'm coming back in a few to watch. Let's get you to 1k subs (at 903 while I type this).
Great information! Though this feels like getting a research paper read aloud to me, and I don't digest those very well... I think I would understand this topic on a deeper level if the language was more approachable 🙃
amazing video my sister
Preach young lady
hey~~really rocking with the work you're doing here, and am grateful for the way you're connecting the work of black anti-capitalist/anti-imperialist thought across time and different contexts and countries. though I'm struggling a bit to keep up with where you're at in your survey/argument as you speak and work through the ideas.
if you're open to suggestions for future essays--am wondering if it would be useful to make the essay you wrote accessible to folks so they can follow along as you read. maybe you can share a link to a google doc just like you did for your sources? or, if theres capacity for you to do so, you could maybe put parts of the essay on the screen as you read? maybe you dont have to do this for the whole essay, just for sections that seem critical for the connections you're making?
I think what other commenters have offered would be helpful too, especially the suggestions to spend time breaking down some of the ideas. if we really want revolution, these ideas gotta become more accessible to folks outside institutions. I'm struggling to pull it off in my own work though, so I know how difficult the work of accessibility can be. 🥴
Thank you so much, this is great feedback. I appreciate you taking the time to watch & let me know. Much love!
Your hair is so pretty!!! That’s the first thing I noticed
All these vids gives off my auntie 😂😂 my radical auntie. Cool topics, would like an analysis of Ethiopianism and it's pre-existance prior to Pan-Africanism. Let's try to be objective and not put down our people though. Academic integrity. Merci!
It was perfect. Keep it up!! PEACE
My beautiful sister, I just came upon your YT. Love it
you make me feel nervous to write my thesis
Salaam from flint Michigan I love this video sister but it’s a little too complex for me subscribed, can you make a video that’s the same thing except more simple. What is “resan des” ? And where does it come from?
it’s just french for “reason for being” “raison d’être” like why those people would have said something or what their purpose / intention was
@ thankyou sister
Very good video
So would it be correct to synopsize your thesis as 'racism is intrinsic to capitalism'? That they cannot exist without the other? If yes, that makes sense to me. The so-called liberalism and indivualism of Capitalism fits nicely in the framework of a 'winner takes all' economic system as opposed to the communalism emphasized by socialism. That hierarchy and division (racial or otherwise) are the foundations of Capitalism, not incidental features. And talking about Capitalism in the fashion of class reductionists is nonsense in the face of historical evidence and lived experience?
The Asterisk explains it all basically
Hey! Look up The Descendants Project in Louisiana for folks staring down the barrell of racial capitalism, and doing amazing organizing
The "Black Marxist" perspective on the development of class society is basically historical revisionism. And it doesn't accurately describe recent history either. I've rented here in Canada for 30yrs and of the dozens of landlords I've had (land lord = feudalism never really ended) zero were "white". There were more than 83,000 documented cases of "white" British children being forcibly sent to Canada to work right into the 1940s, compared to 4,200 documented enslaved Africans. Black men and white men got the right to vote at the same time in Canada. The first governor of British Columbia was mixed Afro-Caribbean and offered the same homesteading rights that were offered to European settlers to formerly enslaved black Americans, which is one of the reasons Canada was the end of the Underground Railroad, despite also having segregated schools, for example, in parts of Southern Ontario and Nova Scotia. So some of the Gulf Islands (called the San Juan Islands in your country) were first settled by formerly enslaved black Americans.
I could go on and on with examples of how the history of North America and the history of the development of modern class society don't fit at all neatly into race-based analyses. Ultimately, just like solely class based analyses, race-based analyses can't give you all the answers. And unfortunately there are no current critical theories that are helping combat the rise of right wing populism and possibly even outright fascism. And that's because they lead to broken, sloganistic concepts like "white privilege" , which is essentially crab-in-a-bucket politics.
I was just talking about this with a homie yesterday
Love it here
I like your awareness. However, the music choice in the background is distracting. Your tone and cadence is sufficient no music is necessary.
The Laws of Physics do not care about Race. The history of the last 550 years has been a record of who had technology versus who did not.
What has Thomas Sowell said about planned obsolescence and the Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods? He did not use the word 'depreciation' a single time in his book, "Basic Economics".
The problem is the NET Domestic Product! Economists do not talk about it. Economists only subtract the depreciation of Capital Goods from GDP and claim that is NDP. But the Laws of Physics do not care and cannot tell the difference between Capital and Consumer Goods.
So since World War Two we have been running THE WORLD on defective Algebra. Make consumer junk to add to GDP and ignore the depreciation. Going into debt to buy the junk is thereby paying interest on the depreciation. Nothing but high technology share cropping.
There were 200,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States in 1995. At $1,500 of depreciation per vehicle that comes to….
NDP = GDP - Dcap (official economic delusion)
NDP = GDP - (Dcap + Dcon) (reality)
Dcap == Depreciation of Capital Goods
Dcon == Depreciation of Durable Consumer Goods
GDP == Grossly Distorted Propaganda
Oh wait, when has the economics profession talked about that? Must be irrelevant, like planned obsolescence.
Instead of this could you not just admit capitalism subsists from most crude- and cheaply controlling productive forces? It (let alone as imperialism) relies on infringing on workers by wearing them down and pitting them against each other through imposing artificial tensions.
Why not just promote cbernetics and publically curse those who derailed it for something much less scientific that clearly doesn’t give more expression to any laws of physics.
Interesting
We need mixed systems this idea of pure capitalism/socialism is a dead end wake up
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Can we start a non-capitalist country if that’s actually the solution to all these problems?
This is why we read history, to learn what people have tried and what has happened. Given the current world order, it would require extreme vigilance and organization to prevent superiorly resourced capitalist countries, especially the U.S., which loves coups, from sabotaging the effort, whether through overt military action or covert espionage.
This is not really viewer accessible, too much irrelevant information, not enough examples, very speedy, cannot isolate main points, sounds more like shopping list reading.
FD said go here so I'm here 👋
Aka capitalism which inherently embraces (really fake) contradictions it can arbitrate for profit. Cheap(ly controlled) labor. There’s no balancing act that’s going to effectively stop it compared to systemically putting people over profits.
How ridiculous.
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Much of Africa’s history is explained by its fragile soils and erratic weather. They make for conservative social and political systems. The communities which endured were those that directed available energies primarily towards minimizing the risk of failure, not maximizing returns. This created societies designed for survival, not development; the qualities needed for survival are the opposite of those needed for developing, ie, making experiments and taking risks. Some societies were wealthy, but accumulating wealth was next to impossible; most people bartered and there were few traders.
In fact, there were few people. Whereas the rest of the world tended to butt up against Malthusian limits on the amount of food that the burgeoning population could wrest from the ground, tropical Africa had plenty of land but strikingly few people.
The problem was that African humans had a hard time outcompeting other living things in Africa, such as diseases (falciparum malaria and sleeping sickness, most notably) and giant beasts (such as elephants).
To put this in Darwinian terms, humanity not only evolved in Africa, but, unfortunately for the humans, co-evolved along with animals and germs, which gave humanity’s rivals a more than fighting chance. When humans arrived in the New World, in contrast, we killed and ate the local elephants (wooly mammoths) in short order because they didn’t understand how dangerous these two-legged creatures with pointy sticks were to them. In Africa, the elephants had seen us coming for millions of years and had time to evolve behavioral defenses against us.
A herd of elephants seems cute to us in America today, but one can eat an entire African village’s crop of food in a day, leaving it starving. So humans and elephants in Africa tended to form patchworks of habitation, with humans only living in areas where they could muster enough density of population to drive off the elephants and giraffes and predators.
But too high a density of population, such as in cities, made people sitting ducks for diseases borne by mosquitoes and tsetse flies. The germs in tropical Africa were even worse than the megafauna. Thomas Pakenham’s 1998 review of John Reader’s book in the New York Times explains:
"Why did Africa south of the Sahara fare so badly in the last three millenniums? Reader explains Africa’s handicaps in terms of disease and climate. He contrasts the happy colonists who ”by leaving the tropical environments of the cradle-land in which humanity had evolved . . . also left behind the many parasites and disease organisms that had evolved in parallel with the human species.” Up to a point, this must be right. In the African Garden of Eden lurked enemies all the more potent because they were invisible: the malaria bug and other lethal organisms. The liberation of Africa from these enemies began with the period of European exploitation and has continued, somewhat haphazardly, as European drugs are exported to Africa."
You made some good points about why africans didn't advance technologically or scientifically like other people in differents parts of the world but your vision about africans fragility against diseases is an Eurocentric false vision and historically inexact because africans didn't suffer from diseases like europeans with the plague epidemic that reduced the numbers of their population by more than half in less than 5 years.
Africans had incestral advanced medecine and in addition they also developed Immunity in their biological systems through exposure to their environment bacterias.
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Black billionaires like jay z rapping about selling his peers drugs and spending thousands on jewelry, then preaching black power. Truly evil
It’s almost poetic that he was born the night Fred Hampton was murdered. The death of black radicalism and the birth of black capitalism 😔
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You said racial capitalism, stupid. I think racial is a divide and conquer tactic this only leads to competitive struggle on who is more important because they were oppressed more. It is a infantile way of thinking in the struggle against capitalism when materially capital turns to imperialism and objectively every group can be dominated.
You need to rewatch the video
Just watch from 3 minutes to 5 minutes. The creation of an "other" allows for the devaluing of the other. She mentions this goes back to other groups such as Jewish people. In western civilization black people were brought across the Caribbean as slaves and seen as less than human... aka other. Captialism thrived off of the creation and deviation of race. While there are a lot of socialist policies that would uplolift everyone, I think its a disservice to cast aside such a fundamental part of capitalisms success when we are talking about history and studying the subject.
- It would be helpful to note that black people are not the ones who are using race to divide and conquer. The fact is, that is the way our society exist. I think it is necessary to realize the history of blacks in amerikkka, and what scholars and activist have had to say about it. With an understanding of that history, and what they have said as a way forward, we can learn and build on their thoughts and plans with hopes of dismantling and freeing ourselves from our oppressor.
Black people don't have the luxury of ignoring the racial aspect of oppression. Especially in the context of the USA the white working class, has been always willing to do the bidding of the elites. Only 2% of white Americans owned enslaved people, yet the practice existed for centuries because at least 90% of whites were invested in maintaining the system of exploitation.
Real. I'm African and there is no such thing as racial capitalism, it's either you're rich or not, but going off the video I'm pretty sure she's an Afro Centrist, the worst kind.
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