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W.E.B. Du Bois: Black Reconstruction in America

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The Importance of Political Education in the Struggle to Abolish Black Altruism

The ground that's laid for that struggle is this sort of political education where we understand our history at deeper and deeper levels. The default cultural assumptions of our society peek through and try to justify themselves. If you are really rooted in good theory you have a sort of inoculation against that stuff from creeping in if you don't have that theory or you're learning all of your marxism from like one ego maniac on twitter whateveryou're going to have a very elementary and stunted understanding. i think Du Bois' intervention in conceptualizing black people leading the plantation as a general strike is absolutely critical. He was very talented organizing throughout the series but places to look uh dark water even though

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