Millennials Are Killing Capitalism

The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism with Zachary Levenson and Marcel Paret

Aug 12, 2023

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Introduction

2min

Delivery Is This Possession Land Occupation and Eviction in Post-Apartheid City

3min

The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism

2min

The Left-Wing Tradition of the Anti-Apartheid Movement

4min

The Role of South Africa in the Development of Racism and Capitalism

2min

The Different Strategies for Combating Racism and Capitalism

2min

The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism

4min

The South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism

3min

The Conjunctural Approach to Racism and Capitalism

2min

10.

The Conjunctural Approach to Race Capitalism in South Africa

2min

11.

The Cost of Reproduction in the Mines

3min

12.

The Conjunctural Analysis of Black Marxism

3min

13.

The Differences Between Stuart Hall and Stuart Hall

2min

14.

The Importance of Steve Biko in the Anti-Partite Struggle

3min

15.

The Origins of the BC Student Movement

3min

16.

The Black Consciousness Movement of Azanian

2min

17.

The Power of Consciousness

3min

18.

The Psychological Dimension of Black Consciousness

3min

19.

The Role of Foreign Capital in South Africa's Mining Industry

2min

20.

The Role of International Finance Capital in the South African Tradition of Racial Capitalism

4min

21.

The Role of Foreign Capital in Racial Capitalism

2min

22.

The Different Roles of Capital in Different Places

2min

23.

The Black Working Class in the Struggle for Liberation

4min

24.

The Power of Class Analysis in the Anti-Partite Movement

2min

25.

The Centrality of Marxist State Theory

2min

26.

The Different Forms of Racism in the 20th Century

3min

27.

The State's Response to Capital and the Needs of Capital

3min

28.

The Dialectics of Racial Capitalism

2min

29.

The Politics of Co-Optation in the South African Liberation Movement

3min

30.

The Failures and Limitations of the ANC

4min

31.

The Failure of the ANC

2min

32.

The Transition to Democracy in South Africa

3min

33.

The Black Working Class and the Racial Capitalist Movement in South Africa

2min

34.

The Tendency of White Workers to Move to Reaction

2min

35.

The Dangers of Racial Capitalism

3min

36.

The Importance of Part-Time and Capitalism in South Africa

7min

In this conversation Josh interviews Zachary Levenson and Marcel Paret discussing their article on “The South African tradition of racial capitalism,” which serves as the introduction to a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies on the same subject.

Zachary Levenson is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Florida International University in the United States and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. He is the author of Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City and a member of the Spectre editorial board.

Marcel Paret is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Utah and Senior Research Associate in the Center for Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. He is the author of Fractured Militancy: Precarious Resistance in South Africa After Racial Inclusion (Cornell University Press, 2022).

Levenson and Paret situate the South African tradition of racial capitalism against the organizational backdrop of the anti-apartheid movement, and outline the key theses of this South African tradition of racial capitalism.

They discuss how these activists, comrades, organic intellectuals and/or theorists within this tradition theorized the role of the state and capital in the development of racist policy, and the contradictions this created as well as the potential avenues of resistance it enabled.

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Links:

Ethnic and Racial Studies Journal (the issue we discuss will be released in October)

Fractured Militancy: Precarious Resistance in South Africa After Racial Inclusion

Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City

Spectre

South African History Online

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