The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism with Zachary Levenson and Marcel Paret
Millennials Are Killing Capitalism
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The Politics of Co-Optation in the South African Liberation Movement
The apartheid state created Bantu stands, these so-called homelands that mapped on to different ethno-linguistic sectors of the black African population. Many anti-apartheid activists saw themselves as simultaneously some version of anti-colonial activists. The problem ultimately was that the radical wing of the liberation movement wasn't in control in any of these Bantu stood. In fact it was largely conservative ethno-nationalists leaders aligned with the apartheid state.
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