From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black RadicalismIn From Class to Race, Charles Mills maps the theoretical route that brought him to the innovative conceptual framework outlined in his academic bestseller The Racial Contract (1997). Mills argues for a new critical theory that develops the insights of the black radical political tradition. While challenging conventional interpretations of key Marxist concepts and claims, the author contends that Marxism has been 'white' insofar as it has failed to recognize the centrality of race and white supremacy to the making of the modern world. By appealing to both mainstream liberal values and the structuralism traditionally associated with the left, Mills asserts that critical race theory can radicalize the mainstream Enlightenment and develop a new kind of contractarianism that deals frontally with race and other forms of social oppression rather than evading them. |
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Page 182
... crucial boundaries are drawn . From this perspective , " whites " and " nonwhites " do not preexist white supremacy as natural kinds ; rather , they are cate- gories and realities themselves brought into existence by the institution ...
... crucial boundaries are drawn . From this perspective , " whites " and " nonwhites " do not preexist white supremacy as natural kinds ; rather , they are cate- gories and realities themselves brought into existence by the institution ...
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... crucial : The task of political philosophy is not any surface description of particu- lar political societies . Instead , the political philosopher wants to under- stand at the deepest level the foundations of states and their ethical ...
... crucial : The task of political philosophy is not any surface description of particu- lar political societies . Instead , the political philosopher wants to under- stand at the deepest level the foundations of states and their ethical ...
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... crucial differentiation being the ability to leave the state of na- ture . Hobbes is sufficiently a racial egalitarian in that he conceptualizes the state of nature as bestial for everybody ; but the crucial point , obvi- ously , is ...
... crucial differentiation being the ability to leave the state of na- ture . Hobbes is sufficiently a racial egalitarian in that he conceptualizes the state of nature as bestial for everybody ; but the crucial point , obvi- ously , is ...
Contents
Marxism in Theory and Practice | 1 |
Is It Immaterial That Theres a Material | 37 |
Marxism Ideology and Moral Objectivism | 59 |
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