Anti-Racism as Communism

AvPaul Gomberg

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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In the United States there have been brilliant examples of anti-racist struggle—black soldiers in the Civil War, coal miners of Alabama, and especially the anti-racist working-class struggles led by the Communist Party. Yet racism persists: Jim Crow replaced racial slavery, and mass incarceration has replaced Jim Crow. Why? In this open access book Paul Gomberg argues that racism is functional for capitalism, supplying low-wage, vulnerable labor and driving down conditions for all workers. How can anti-racists put an end to racist society? Gomberg argues for race-centered Marxism: anti-racism must lead working-class struggle, but racism will end only in a communist society that creates opportunity for all.The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

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Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-11
Mått:162 x 238 x 22 mm
Vikt:560 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350257979

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Paul Gomberg retired as Professor of Philosophy at Chicago State University, where he taught for twenty-nine years. He is currently Research Associate in the Philosophy department at the University of California at Davis. He is the author of How to Make Opportunity Equal: Race and Contributive Justice (2007) and has participated in fifty years of anti-racist activism.

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Anti-Racism as Communism contains a wide range of interesting and provocative claims and helps break new ground in existing philosophical discussions of social justice, racism and capitalism. In particular, both of the central lessons Gomberg discusses in the book help to push back against the fairly widespread view that communism and socialism are economistic creeds, or perhaps even hopelessly ‘class reductionist’ in outlook, and thus have very little of value to say about race. For this reason, the book deserves a wide readership on the political left, not just among card-carrying communists.

Innehållsförteckning

A PERSONAL INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF RACE IN ENGLISH NORTH AMERICA CHAPTER 2: RACE IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR CHAPTER 3: BLACK WORKERS IN SOUTHERN AGRICULTURE: FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO WW2CHAPTER 4: RACE AND ANTI-RACISM IN INDUSTRY: COAL MINERS 1870-1921 CHAPTER 5: RACE AND ANTI-RACISM IN INDUSTRY: THE COMMUNIST PARTY FIGHTS RACISMCHAPTER 6: THE CREATION OF TODAY’S RACISMCHAPTER 7: IS RACISM INTERRACIAL? CHAPTER 8: ALIENATING RACE AND FIGHTING RACISM CHAPTER 9: RACE-CENTERED MARXISMCHAPTER 10: A SOCIETY WITHOUT RACECHAPTER 11: REASONABLE HOPE? ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSREFERENCES