Marxism wasn’t exported to the Caribbean. It was proven there. From the Haitian Revolution to Cuba under blockade to Grenada’s revolutionary rupture, Caribbean political economy thinkers and revolutionaries have shown that colonial capitalism was distorted, not absent. Class struggle unfolds under imperial constraint. . . .
Research Papers
Internal Colonialism and the Reproduction of Capital
The racially organized nature of space in the U.S. is not accidental. From slavery to Jim Crow to the prison industrial complex to gentrification, internal colonialism has structured the exploitation of Black communities. This essay examines how the colonial division of labor functions as ongoing primitive accumulation. . . .
How Western Mental Health Reinforces Capitalism
Western mental health institutions function as tools of capitalism, pathologizing resistance while numbing oppressed people into compliance. This Pan-African Communist analysis exposes how psychiatry reinforces social control rather than liberation. . . .
The Socialism of Islam: Beyond “Islamic Socialism”
A proper contextualization of Socialism of Islam by Dr. Mustafa Sibai. . . .
Examining the Prison Industrial Complex’s Impact on Black America
A world in which resources and opportunity were fairly distributed to Black Americans does not exist. This country’s history of racial oppression has weighed a heavy burden on the progress and advancement of Africans since slavery and will continue without organized resistance. . . .
The Black Male and U.S. Public Education
Needless to say, the education system doesn’t want to educate young Black students. To non-Black educators, it would seem educating Black students is such a twisted idea. As they want to advance the oppression we must keep fighting. When we look at school systems there’s a million rules specifically aimed at Black students. Our hair, our physical style, our fashion, everything is done to make sure young Black students can’t truly survive. Advancing the literacy development of the Black male in contexts that are culturally relevant and meaningful has been a challenging task for educators across the P-12 spectrum. African . . .
“Black Women Don’t Do Depression…”
“While the symptomology of untreated depression crosses racial and gender barriers, little to no research has been done specifically on Black women whose presentation of depression may differ from what is currently viewed as signs of depression.” . . .
Marginal Benefits & the Functionalism of Conflict in Africa: Case Studies of State Responses to Pan-African Political Leaders
“Historical evidence reveals that Africa had its renaissance centuries, if not millenniums, before Europe. Some of Africa’s past civilizations were in the Nile, Zimbabwe, Congo and Ghana. It was the trans-Atlantic slave trade and colonialism which destroyed Africa and underdeveloped it. Slavery and colonialism were made possible by the so-called European Renaissance. Today these forces have their Pan-Europeanism through their European Union, making them a powerful economic bloc. They are integrating socially and politically and working for a borderless Europe. On the other hand, Africa is wallowing in the quagmire of underdevelopment, poverty, endless border wars, economic domination and the . . .