i find the kind of refusal by some marxis to let those play nice together hard to understand. i feel like iv learned a lot of how i think about race and capitalism, and the global flow of capitalism, from marks. And one of the things that was going on over there, and that was very explicitly acknowledged, again, by all these old gard barxiss, was the berlin conference of 18 84. The division of the african continent into basically zones of economic exploitation by european colonial powers. That's not built into the laws of motion of capital. But, but whether or not we survive this revolutionary struggle depends on the answer to this very contingent question about