given the interimbrication of political action and political education I think it’s important to specify how these riots have underlined the inefficiencies of Black analytic augmentations of Marxian theory.

put differently, these direct actions seem to strain against and apply autotheoretic pressure to the assumptive logics of Marxism even and especially as these struggles demonstrably outstrip the explanatory power of exploitation and accumulation, civil society and proletariat.

if looting is not about (re)possession but dispossession, or blackness being the dispossessory force in a world that says to be Black is to be valued as less than commodity at the exact same time as one is registered only as commodity; then, black marxism finds an analytic limit.

if black marxism claims race structures the productive relations+forces of capitalism and capitalism must be interrupted to end those racist relations+forces, I want to consider how these riots are about a kind of interminable interruption of something irreducible to productivity

I’m thinking about this because I don’t want what’s happening across the country to be comprehended only as a matter of proletariat vs. boss, or solely through anti-capitalist grammars especially given the anti-capitalist demonstrations of looting.

what is happening is not about capitalism even as ending capitalism is held irreducibly in what is happening.
what is happening is about anti-blackness and I want to develop a way of talking about it that doesn’t rehearse black marxian logics of “resistance” to racial capitalism