A towering achievement. There is simply nothing like it in the history of Black radical thought Cornel WestCedric Robinsons brilliant analyses revealed new ways of thinking and acting Angela DavisThis work is about our peoples struggle the historical Black struggleAny struggle must be fought on a peoples own terms argues Cedric Robinsons landmark account of Black radicalism. Marxism is a western construction and therefore inadequate to describe the significance of Black communities as agents of change against racial capitalism. Tracing the emergence of European radicalism the history of Black African resistance and the influence of these on such key thinkers as W. E. B. Du Bois C. L. R. James and Richard Wright Black Marxism reclaims the story of a movement.