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The wages of whiteness in the absence of wages: racial capitalism, reactionary intercommunalism and the rise of Trumpism

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  • John Narayan

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In November 1970, Black Panther Party leader Huey P. Newton gave a lecture at Boston College where he introduced his theory of intercommunalism. Newton re-articulated Marxist theories of imperialism through the lens of the Black liberation struggle and argued that imperialism had entered a new phase called ‘reactionary intercommunalism’. Newton’s theory of intercommunalism offers nothing less than a proto-theorisation of what we have come to call neo-liberal globalisation and its effects on what W. E. B. Du Bois had seen as the racialisation of modern imperialism. Due to the initial historical dismissal of the Black Panther Party’s political legacy, Newton’s thought has largely been neglected for the past 40 years. This paper revisits Newton’s theory of intercommunalism, with the aim of achieving some form of epistemic justice for his thought, but also to highlight how Newton’s recasting of imperialism as reactionary intercommunalism provides critical insight into the rise of Trumpism in the US.

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  • John Narayan, 2017. "The wages of whiteness in the absence of wages: racial capitalism, reactionary intercommunalism and the rise of Trumpism," Third World Quarterly, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 38(11), pages 2482-2500, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ctwqxx:v:38:y:2017:i:11:p:2482-2500
    DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1368012
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    1. Silke Roth, 2018. "Introduction: Contemporary Counter-Movements in the Age of Brexit and Trump," Sociological Research Online, , vol. 23(2), pages 496-506, June.
    2. Benedict E. DeDominicis, 2022. "American Regime Institutionalization, Segregation, Integration And Assimilation: The Social Identity Dynamics Of Utilitarian Cooptation," Review of Business and Finance Studies, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 13(1), pages 1-30.

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