"Solidarity Is Not a Market Exchange": An RM Interview with Robin D. G. Kelley, Part 2. Issue 2 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kelley, Robin D. G.; Amariglio, Jack; Wilson, Lucas
• Is Part Of: Rethinking Marxism. Volume 31:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 152
• Page End: 172
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Cedric Robinson -- Dialectics and Contradiction -- Racial Regimes -- African Diaspora -- Primitive Accumulation; Communism -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 335.4305
• DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2019.1592407
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0893-5696

Abstract

Abstract : Part 2 of RM 's interview with historian Robin D. G. Kelley—"Solidarity is Not a Market Exchange"—picks up in detail on Kelley's indebtedness to, and understanding of Cedric Robinson's concept of "racial capitalism." This part of the interview also covers Kelley's use of the Marxian/Hegelian notion of "contradiction;" the intellectual and activist traditions that most influenced Kelley's thinking; Kelley's take on scholars of historical black radical movements in America; Kelley's conceptions of race and racism; his and Robinson's critique of Marx's notion of primitive accumulation and the types of exploitation Marx thought important or not; Kelley's use and criticism of "utopia;" economic and social struggles within universities; Kelley's position on the Althusserian Benin theorist, Paulin Hountandji, and the notions of African "ethnophilosophy" and "unanism;" and Kelley's view of the efficacy, or not, of "diaspora" to describe the condition of black communities in the U.S. and abroad.