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The Wrong Dureee: The Politics of Cedric J. Robinson's Racial Capitalism

Johnson, Cedric
http://nonsite.org/the-wrong-duree-the-politics-of-cedric-j-robinsons-racial-capitalism/

Publisher:  Nonsite
Date Written:  29/01/2025
Year Published:  2025  
Resource Type:  Article

Interests are the basis of political life. Put another way, politics is the process through which discrete interests are articulated, organized, and imposed through institutions, policies, cultural hegemony, coercion, force, or some combination of those elements. Here I do not merely mean interests in the pedestrian sense of what concerns us but in the deeper, early modernist sense of passions—what preoccupies us and motivates us, what determines our immediate actions and shifting priorities in real historical time.

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Political interests are essentially what particular constituencies want both in an immediate sense of metabolic needs, political rights, social relations, resources, and other conditions of life and the conscious ideological sense, what kind of world those constituents want. The fact of social heterogeneity, diverse passions, rivalries, and conflicting interests is a fundamental condition of our species and the plane where politics begins, from the formation of the earliest clans and nomadic tribes, the classical civilizations of antiquity, the kingdoms and empires of the "long Middle Ages," to the making of the modern world and the large complex capitalist societies of our time. Throughout all of human history, the question of power, who will rule, who will be ruled, and on what terms—or more succinctly, class struggle—is always present, central, and contingent.
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