'A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of Black radical
thought' Cornel West 'Cedric Robinson's brilliant analyses revealed new ways of thinking and
acting' Angela Davis 'This work is about our people's struggle the historical Black
struggle' Any struggle must be fought on a people's own terms argues Cedric Robinson's
landmark account of Black radicalism. Marxism is a western construction and therefore
inadequate to describe the significance of Black communities as agents of change against
'racial capitalism'. Tracing the emergence of European radicalism the history of Black African
resistance and the influence of these on such key thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois C. L. R. James
and Richard Wright Black Marxism reclaims the story of a movement.
