The wages of whiteness in the absence of wages

Racial capitalism, reactionary intercommunalism and the rise of Trumpism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11185113
AutoresJ Narayan (0000-0002-0570-0183, University of Warwick, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen38
Número11
Páginas2482-2500
Fecha de publicación2017-11-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThird World Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0143-6597 • E-ISSN: 1360-2241
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01436597.2017.1368012
OpenAlexW2752419755
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas38
Referencias citadas26

In November 1970, Black Panther Party leader Huey P. Newton gave a lecture at Boston College where he introduced his theory of intercommunalism. Newton re-articulated Marxist theories of imperialism through the lens of the Black liberation struggle and argued that imperialism had entered a new phase called ‘reactionary intercommunalism’. Newton’s theory of intercommunalism offers nothing less than a proto-theorisation of what we have come to call neo-liberal globalisation and its effects on what W. E. B. Du Bois had seen as the racialisation of modern imperialism. Due to the initial historical dismissal of the Black Panther Party’s political legacy, Newton’s thought has largely been neglected for the past 40 years. This paper revisits Newton’s theory of intercommunalism, with the aim of achieving some form of epistemic justice for his thought, but also to highlight how Newton’s recasting of imperialism as reactionary intercommunalism provides critical insight into the rise of Trumpism in the US

Capitalism · Dismissal · Economic history · Economics · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Reactionary · Sociology · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Political theory and Gramsci · Race, History, and American Society