Látí Tanna, “to turn the light on” (Yoruba).
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why name not “socialism” as a goal or value?
“Anti-capitalism” is increasingly a value of social justice organizations, and socialism is surely a valid anti-capitalism. Naming socialism also gives the opportunity build unity about what it is we want and what steps might take us there. I understand there is a lot of hesitance or even refusal to name socialism.
OK, “Socialism” but why use a white man’s system like Marxism?
The title of this post comes from several conversations I have been a part of but it is hardly unique to me, it is a fairly common one. However, I think the answer is fairly straight forward. 1) Employing ideas of Karl Marx does not stop us from putting those ideas in relation to others or to looking at how they do and do not relate to various African/Black ways of beings.
class analysis as anti-capitalism
As has been said, “anti-capitalism” is more and more frequently being named as an organizational commitment. However, what that means in organizational practice is often unclear. One step can be to look at how class and class struggle is active in an organization’s mission or project.
the term “grant” is an expression of class struggle.
We need to reexamine this term “grant.” How is that the exchange of money for labor or a service, accompanied by a multi-point contract in 6 font, in the context of racial capitalism, is anything other than a sale of a commodity?