Reconstructing the Radical Du Bois
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4272201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Manning Marable (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 1-25 |
| Publication date | 2005-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Souls (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1099-9949 • E-ISSN: 1548-3843 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10999940500265391 |
| OpenAlex | W2070548818 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
What is happening to Marx's theory has, in the course of history, happened repeatedly to the theories of revolutionary thinkers and leaders of oppressed classes fighting for emancipation. During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names, to a certain extent, for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it. —V. I Lenin, The State and Revolution, 1917 1 1. V.I. Lenin, “The State and Revolution: The Marxist Theory of the State and the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Revolution,” In K. Marx, F. Engels, and V. Lenin, On Historical Materialism (New York: International Publishers, 1972), p. 525. You really have to forget about the last years of Du Bois' life. —Wall Street Journal, November 4, 1963 2 2. Wall Street Journal, November 4, 1963. Historian Gerald Horne cites the negative comments of Du Bois's former friends and associates that appeared in the Wall Street Journal several months following the black scholar-activist's death. See Gerald Horne, Black and Red: W.E.B. Du Bois and the American Response to the Cold War, 1944–1963 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986), p. 357
Art history · Counterculture · Emancipation · Hatred · Marxist philosophy · Materialism · Political science · Politics · Proletariat · Sociology · Theology · History · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society · Religious studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,28 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |