Socialism
Posted on 12 July 2020
Tommaso Campanella’s The City of the Sun and other utopian works of the Italian Renaissance describe perfect cities as an ideal for real life politics.
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Posted on 21 March 2021
Around the time of World War One, Hubert Harrison (pictured), A. Philip Randolph, and other black socialists argue that racial oppression is caused by capitalism.
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Posted on 4 April 2021
Vanessa Wills speaks to us about Marx and his Africana legacy, with a special focus on black women Marxists.
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Posted on 19 September 2021
The career of the multi-talented activist and performer Paul Robeson, and the place of the Negro spiritual in the Harlem Renaissance.
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Posted on 3 October 2021
Du Bois moves to the left, and revisits and refines older positions during the latter half of his very long life.
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Posted on 9 January 2022
Two Trinidadian political thinkers: sociologist Oliver Cox analyzes the nature of racial prejudice, and historian Eric Williams connects capitalism to slavery.
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Posted on 23 January 2022
Claudia Jones argues that Communism provides the remedy for racism and imperialism.
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Posted on 6 February 2022
Interview guest Carole Boyce Davies joins us to talk about the radical ideas of Claudia Jones.
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Posted on 20 February 2022
Famous for his incendiary novel Native Son, Richard Wright responds in his multifaceted writings to sociology, communism, colonialism, and existentialism.
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Posted on 6 March 2022
Ralph Ellison provides a new metaphor for the experience of racism in his Invisible Man and tackles topics of art and identity in his essays.
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Posted on 15 May 2022
Chike joins Peter to look back at our coverage of Africana philosophy in the first half of the 20th century.
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Posted on 29 May 2022
After 1963, the views of Malcolm X and MLK came closer together, on topics including internationalism, political engagement, and economics.
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Posted on 12 June 2022
The Cuban activist and author Juan Rene Betancourt urges racial solidarity and reckons with the revolution under Castro and the island’s turn towards Communism.
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Posted on 26 June 2022
Two Nigerian activists lead the struggle for independence, and clash over the competing values of national unity and ethnic diversity.
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Posted on 10 July 2022
The first leader of independent Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, writes against neocolonialism and in favor of socialism and Pan-Africanism.
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Posted on 30 October 2022
The philosophical underpinnings of a “vanguard of revolution” led by Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver: the Black Panther Party.
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Posted on 13 November 2022
The Pan-Africanist philosopher Maulana Karenga defends the importance of cultural revolution and invents the holiday Kwanzaa.
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Posted on 27 November 2022
African American literature of the late 1960s reflects the Black Power movement, in the works of such authors as Amiri Baraka, Nikki Giovanni, Haki Madhubuti, Larry Neal, and Sonia Sanchez.
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Posted on 25 December 2022
The first leader of independent Tanzania grounds his socialist ideas in traditional African values.
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Posted on 8 January 2023
Amílcar Cabral, leader of a revolution against colonialism in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, rethinks culture and Marxist theory as bases for his struggle.
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Posted on 22 January 2023
Two scholars of the same name join us to shed further light on freedom fighter and political theorist Amílcar Cabral.
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Posted on 5 February 2023
The career and ideas of Nelson Mandela up to the time of his imprisonment, in the context of the founding of the African National Congress.
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Posted on 20 March 2011
In his masterpiece the Republic, Plato describes the ideal city and draws a parallel between this city and the just soul, with the three classes of the city mirroring the three parts of the soul. Peter discusses this parallel and the historical context that may have influenced Plato's political thought.
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