Tag: colonialism

History Against the Formula: August Nimtz, Cedric Robinson, and the Making of Revolutionary Universality

August Nimtz’s "Black Marxism: A Marxist Critique" challenges Cedric Robinson's assertion that Marxism and Black radicalism are distinct, arguing instead that Marx's historical materialism evolved through encounters with colonialism and Black liberation struggles. Nimtz argues that genuine internationalism requires oppressed groups to first forge autonomous political identities before uniting. Using Cuba as a case study, he shows how socialist transformation can materially alter racial dynamics yet acknowledges persistent inequalities. Ultimately, he posits that revolutionary potential arises not just from class position but from active struggle and organization, emphasizing that no class is born universally revolutionary and that political agency must be cultivated through history and struggle.

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The Coup Didn’t Come From Nowhere: Niger, Base 101, and the Empire Inside the State

BBC framed Niger’s August 29 Base 101 uprising as a story about mutinous soldiers and a frightening weapons cache. The deeper record reveals something far more consequential: a fractured special-operations apparatus, credible evidence of Bazoum-linked and foreign contacts, an inherited Western security system, and a state still fighting to reclaim control over its military, uranium, and foreign relations. As France and the United States adapt to lost bases through smaller footprints, partner forces, and strategic networks, Niger is building alternative relationships through the AES, Russia, and Algeria. The coup didn’t come from nowhere—and neither did the empire trying to survive its retreat.

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We Built the Master: Marx and the World That Rules Its Makers

In the Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Marx discovers a contradiction that will haunt the whole development of his critique of capitalism: workers build an expanding world of wealth, machinery, knowledge and social power that returns to rule them as capital. This review follows that insight from wages and estranged labour through private property, colonial history, slavery, money, communism, Hegel and revolutionary humanism. It argues that the manuscripts are neither immature philosophy nor finished Marxism, but a breakthrough under pressure—one already forcing “Man” into history and asking the question that still matters: who controls humanity’s accumulated powers?

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Lenin’s Imperialism: The World Is Socialized, the Loot Stays Private

Lenin's "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism" exposes the dark underbelly of capitalism, where economic forces and political power dance in a shadowy masquerade. He reveals how imperialism is not a mere side-effect of states' ambitions but a complex product of capital's relentless quest for profit, driving nations to export capital rather than just goods. The document reflects the sinister dynamics that create monopolies, establish financial oligarchies, and differentiate classes within the proletariat, suggesting that even workers can become complicit in their subjugation. This analysis remains crucial today, as it compels us to question ownership and control within our increasingly interconnected world.

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Marx and Engels Against Their Own Ghosts: The German Ideology and the Fight to Keep Materialism Inside History

Marx and Engels' The German Ideology brutally uncovers the egregious folly of detaching philosophy from material conditions. They weaponize critiques of German idealists, exposing how revolutionary thought that ignores the tangible, lived experiences of class struggle morphs into mere ideology. Highlighting the perils of alienation, they assert that human powers can unwittingly turn oppressive when subjected to capitalist structures. Moreover, they admonish socialists who, by elevating abstract ideas above real movements, dilute the revolutionary essence of their theories. In a world increasingly interlinked yet profoundly unequal, their insistence on rooting ideas in concrete history remains a clarion call for genuine transformation against ideological hauntings.

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Whose Gospel Is It?: Empire, the Oppressed, and the Battle for Christianity

The profound legacy of American Christianity reveals a striking dichotomy: a faith that has historically upheld domination and one that fervently resists it. From the hidden church of the enslaved to Black abolitionism and Indigenous Christian defiance, oppressed communities have seized the Gospel to construct their liberation narrative. As institutional power consolidated in the hands of reactionary forces, an urgent call emerged for believers to reclaim their spiritual heritage and resist Christian nationalism. The challenge lies in forging an organized Christian movement capable of translating faith into collective action that confronts exploitation and promotes social justice, reinvigorating the powerful tradition of liberation Christianity.

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Sovereign Enough to Steal From: How American Law Turns Conquest Into Governance

Ward Churchill’s Perversions of Justice exposes the legal machinery through which Indigenous sovereignty is recognized just enough to legitimize treaties, land cessions, resource extraction and colonial administration—then restricted whenever it threatens settler possession or state power. Following that contradiction from conquest and property into uranium mining, blood quantum, AIM repression and U.S. imperial expansion, this review tests both Churchill’s strongest insights and his strategic limits. His final wager—that the colonizer’s own law can be weaponized to fracture legitimacy and withdraw consent—remains powerful. But the deeper revolutionary question is what turns that rupture into organized material counter-power.

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The Revolution Must Keep Making Revolutionaries: Fidel Castro and the Fight Against Becoming a Monument

On the centenary of Fidel Castro's birth, his autobiography, My Life, acts as a provocative lens into the complexities of revolution. It dismantles the myth of the born revolutionary, showcasing instead how context, struggle, and learning forge warriors for change. Despite Cuba's successes, deep-rooted issues like racism and inequality persist, with Fidel warning that Cuba's most significant threat may not come from external forces but from within—its own inability to correct mistakes. As the Revolution ages, the pressing query remains: can it continually foster revolutionary consciousness amidst evolving contradictions or will it succumb to the complacency that often follows victory?

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The Dividend Is Human: Africa’s Population Boom and the Battle Over Production

The Financial Times provocatively flips the Malthusian narrative on its head, arguing Africa's plight stems from a historical lack of population rather than excess. This revisionist tale criticizes the colonial legacy that stripped Africa of its labor and infrastructure, while the current swell of population, cities, and markets struggles against debt and underdevelopment. The real challenge isn't merely a growing populace; it's whether Africans can seize control of factories, technology, and continental markets. As density increases, the push for organized labor and investment in industrial capacity becomes crucial—otherwise, Africa risks becoming a mere market for foreign goods, trapped in a cycle of dependency despite its demographic potential.

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The World Got Richer, You Didn’t: Capitalism’s Quadrillion-Dollar Balance-Sheet Lie

Fortune says “global households” became $40 trillion richer in 2025. But when the richest 10 percent already own three-quarters of the world’s wealth, that headline is less a report than a magic trick. The new abundance came largely from rising equities, inflated asset values and expanding financial claims—not from productive investment or improved living standards. Behind the quadrillion-dollar balance sheet lies a system where private fortunes swell while public wealth stagnates, workers lose power, tenants lose security and the Global South services the debts of the imperial core. This is not shared prosperity. It is class power written in the language of accounting.

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