EP. 946: A BLACK MARXIST CRITIQUE OF BLACK MARXISM ft. AUGUST NIMTZ

THIS IS REVOLUTION ＞podcast · Oct 29, 2026 · 1h 5m

Get August's book here, directly from Monthly Review: https://monthlyreview.org/in-the-public-eye-black.../ Over the last decade, Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition has deeply shaped debates on the place of race within capitalist societies. Perhaps these questions are now settled, but at one time they were far too controversial: Is race subsumed by class, with the latter the sine qua non of capitalism? Do race and class act independently within modern societies? Or does capitalism inevitably express a deeper racial impetus in the West? August Nimtz…