Black anarchism and the Black radical tradition: Moving beyond racial capitalism - Softcover

Bagby-Williams, Atticus; Za Suekama, Nsambu

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1990263321 ISBN 13: 9781990263323

Publisher: Daraja Press, 2022

Synopsis

This work is an important achievement in clarifying the history and current importance of Black anarchism. The information that the book presents will be new to many readers. For instance, one important component involves the explanations of how hierarchical principles within the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army helped generate the emergence of Black anarchism among key party members who later developed their ideas and strategies while in prison. Likewise, the book breaks new ground in demonstrating that Black anarchism has emerged not from the European/ North American anarchist traditions but rather from roots in Pan-Africanism, the Black radical tradition focusing on racial capitalism and the work of Cedric Robinson, and grassroots struggles partly in the U.S. South. An in-depth analysis of the somewhat different but complementary focuses within the two generations of Black anarchism also is very helpful. Finally, the book highlights concrete, contemporary implications for revolutionary strategy, including a perceptive analysis of the compatibilities between socialist and Black anarchist approaches to current transformative struggles. This publication will become widely known and used because it brings enlightening new ways to understand and act on the intertwined structures of racial capitalism and the capitalist state.

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About the Author

Atticus Bagby-Williams is a communist theorist though he likes to think of himself as an anarchist in practice. Histheoretical work is concerned with historical and contemporaneous black anarchist thought, the multiplicity of social struggles against oppression in the United States, and third worldist perspectives on revolution. His anarchist practice is concerned primarily with community based radical education, cultivating cultures of community self defense and anti-repression work. He has written for Red Voice and the Commoner and previously published a chapter with Shemon and Arturo in the bookThe Revolutionary Meaning of the George Floyd Rebellion. "Nsambu (or "Bl3ssing"), they/she, is a New African woman of nonbinary/transgender experience, focused on revolutionary organizing and educating at the crossroads of Black ecology, Third Worldism, transfeminist materialism, and anarchist/autonomist movement. They previously published "To The Ones Who Can Fly: A Message from the Whirlwind" (True Leap Press), including a study guide for support of Black trans prisoners. Her radical theoretical contributions have been featured on Red Voice News and Afrofuturist Abolitionists of the Americas. Shannon Fauwkes (they/them) is a non binary BlaQueer organizer in the Midwest who's current work focuses primarily on abolition, Black Autonomous/Anarchic Radical (BAR) theory and praxis, and creating affordable, cooperative housing options in their city with their co-op crew. They live and work at a Catholic Worker hospitality house for single mothers with children. Howard Waitzkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of New Mexico and practices internal medicine part-time in rural New Mexico and Illinois. For many years he has been active in struggles focusing on health in the United States and Latin America. He is coordinator, with the Working Group for Health Beyond Capitalism, of Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, Monthly Review Press, 2018.

Edition details

• Publisher: Daraja Press
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1990263321
• ISBN 13: 9781990263323
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64