'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.
