Topic: Postmodernism

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43: Black Inc.
1:09:55 - 1:13:30

43: Black Inc.

Bill Fletcher Jr, Emancipation Theory, and Racial Grievances

Professor Bill Fletcher Jr. argues that Marxism is a "theory of emancipation" that has been profoundly influenced by thinkers from Africa and the Global South. He dismisses the idea that Marxism is strictly a "white man's theory" while critiquing postmodernism as a "cancer" on the left. The hosts discuss how Black Marxism differentiates itself by claiming white workers cannot relate to specific black grievances.