Table of contents for Black marxism : the making of the Black radical tradition / Cedric J. Robinson ; foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley ; with a new preface by the author.

Contents
Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley                                 xi
Preface to the 2000 Edition                                 xxvii
Preface                                                      xxxv
Acknowledgments                                            xxxvii
Introduction                                                    1

Part I The Emergence and Limitations of European Radicalism

1 Racial Capitalism:

The Nonobjective Character of Capitalist Development            9
Europe's Formation                                             l0
The First Bourgeoisie                                          13
The Modern World Bourgeoisie                                   18
The Lower Orders                                               21
The Effects of Western Civilization on Capitalism              24

2 The English Working Class as the Mirror of Production        29

Poverty and Industrial Capitalism                              31
The Reaction of English Labor                                  33
The Colonization of Ireland                                    36
English Working-Class Consciousness and the Irish Worker       39
The Proletariat and the English Working Class                  41

3 Socialist Theory and Nationalism                             45

Socialist Thought: Negation of Feudalism or Capitalism?        46
From Babeuf to Marx: A Curious Historiography                  49
Marx, Engels, and Nationalism                                  52
Marxism and Nationalism                                        62
Conclusion                                                     65

Part 2 The Roots of Black Radicalism

4 The Process and Consequences of Africa's Transmutation       71

The Diminution of the Diaspora                                 72
The Primary Colors of American Historical Thought              74
The Destruction of the African Past                            81
Premodern Relations between Africa and Europe                  82
The Mediterranean: Egypt, Greece, and Rome                     83
The Dark Ages: Europe and Africa                               85
Islam, Africa, and Europe                                      87
Europe and the Eastern Trade                                   89
Islam and the Making of Portugal                               91
Islam and Eurocentrism                                         97
          

5 The Atlantic Slave Trade and African Labor                  101

The Genoese Bourgeoisie and the Age of Discovery              103
Genoese Capital, the Atlantic, and a Legend                   106
African Labor as Capital                                      109
The Ledgers of a World System                             111
The Column Marked "British Capitalism"                        116

6 The Historical Archaeology of the Black Radical Tradition   121

History and the Mere Slave                                    123
Reds, Whites, and Blacks                                      125
Black for Red                                                 128
Black Resistance: The Sixteenth Century                       130
Palmares and Seventeenth-Century Marronage                    132
Black Resistance in North America                             140
The Haitian Revolution                                        144
Black Brazil and Resistance                                   149
Resistance in the British West Indies                         155
Africa: Revolt at the Source                                  164

7 The Nature of the Black Radical Tradition                   167


Part 3         Black Radicalism and Marxist Theory

8 The Formation of an Intelligentsia                           175

Capitalism, Imperialism, and the Black Middle Classes         177
Western Civilization and the Renegade Black Intelligentsia    181

9 Historiography and the Black Radical Tradition              185

Du Bois and the Myths of National History                     185
Du Bois and the Reconstruction of History and American       
Political Thought                                                                 195
Slavery and Capitalism                                        199
Labor, Capitalism, and Slavery                                200
Slavery and Democracy                                         203
Reconstruction and the Black Elite                            205
Du Bois, Marx, and Marxism                                    207
Bolshevism and American Communism                             208
Black Nationalism                                             212
Blacks and Communism                                          218
Du Bois and Radical Theory                                    228

10 C. L. R. James and the Black Radical Tradition             241

Black Labor and the Black Middle Classes in Trinidad          241
The Black Victorian Becomes a Black Jacobin                   251
British Socialism                                             257
Black Radicals in the Metropole                               260
The Theory of the Black Jacobin                               270
Coming to Terms with the Marxist Tradition                    278

11 Richard Wright and the Critique of Class Theory            287

Marxist Theory and the Black Radical Intellectual             287
The Novel as Politics                                         291
Wright's Social Theory                                        293
Blacks as the Negation of Capitalism                          299
The Outsider as a Critique of Christianity and Marxism        301


12 An Ending                                                  307

Notes                                                         319
Bibliography                                                  409
Index                                                         431