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#70 A look at Cedric Robinson’s ’Black Marxism’ - Annie Olaloku-Teriba

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Robinson's Dialectical Materialism

I think there is an irony in a sense of like making the accusation of Eurocentrism whilst failing woefully to address actually what are the dynamics on the continent. Ring Kelly talks about how historical materialism is outlived, lifted to use of dialectics were always important. I think that the issue is that if you go back to Marx like in the preface and you work through some of the claims that he's making specifically they're misplaced. In fact it seems to be the case that the dichotomy that Robinson is trying to draw in his like articulation of dialectical materialism as opposed to like the historical materialism of Marxism is a bit misplaced. Okay. So okay then

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