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Revolutionary Left Radio
Black Scare/Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States
Nov 29, 2023
In this episode, Dr. CBS discusses her book 'Black Scare/Red Scare', exploring the interconnectedness of anti-radical repression and anti-Black racial oppression. They examine the impact of the Red Scare on black activism, the emergence of black internationalism, and the hypocrisy of state perception towards black internationalism. The speakers also delve into the connection between war, imperialism, and racial oppression, as well as the concept of true Americanism and its association with Black identity extremism.
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- The podcast discusses three genres of radical Blackness targeted by the US state: West Indian, Outside Agitator, and Red-Black Black-Red, highlighting the political terrain Black radicals navigate to avoid being labeled as subversive or insurrectionists.
- War plays a foundational role in US capitalist racist society, supporting the rise of global hegemony and the imperialist agenda, while challenging war becomes a threat to the political economy and exposes the contradictions of US democracy.
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The Fungibility of Genres: West Indian, Outside Agitator, Red-Black Black-Red
The podcast episode discusses the three genres of radical Blackness targeted by the US state: West Indian, Outside Agitator, and Red-Black Black-Red. The West Indian represents the intersection of foreignness, radicalism, and Blackness, posing a danger due to their class analysis, internationalist perspective, and racial critique. They challenge the US narrative from the constitutive outside. The Outside Agitator is an educated Black person who organizes and spreads ideas, seen as amenable to foreign influence and thus divisive. The Red-Black Black-Red is a Black Communist, deemed the most hated genre due to their beliefs in social equality, interracial organizing, and economic redistribution. There is overlap among the genres, illustrating the narrow political terrain in which Black radicals organize to avoid being labeled as subversive or insurrectionists.
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