Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Marx’s Apologists Should Be Red in the Face - The Wall Street Journal.

'All I know is that I am not a Marxist,' Marx himself
said repeatedly, especially after some French revolutionaries started using violent means
and calling themselves Marxists whereas Marx and Engels stipulated the preferred strategy
of forming a communist party to fight for power social-democratically."

Biko Agozino (2014) The Africana paradigm in Capital: the debts of Karl
Marx to people of African descent, Review of African Political Economy, 41:140, 172-184, DOI:
10.1080/03056244.2013.872613
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/03056244.2013.872613

Now the above statement  is another take on the context of "I am not a Marxist."

Biko, can you clarify so that we can set the record straight or at least improve on it. 

I have always felt that one of the reasons why there is a deep hatred for Marx

by  leading Eurocentric  intellectuals -  in philosophy, sociology and history etc. -  was for his "audacity" to draw attention to  the role of the enslaved Africans in capital accumulation and the British  industrial revolution itself, and for  daring to view the enslaved as victims of oppression and  active human beings pursued for their labor power by avaricious   proto capitalists. His critique of Judaeo- Christian religion and others as opiate was not appreciated either.

I have to say, though, that the  above Africana paradigm article  opened up a completely different perspective on Marxist philosophy. It is not what Marxism brought to the analysis of the struggles of  Africans but what African struggles brought to  Marx and Marxism.

This changes everything, so to speak. Everybody should read this article.

Special thanks to the contributions of  Tomi Adeaga and  Asonzeh Ukah.

GE