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Black particularity reconsidered - Adolph L. Reed Jr.

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An in-depth 1970s analysis of how the management of black dissent by the black American middle-class/professional elite helped restructure capitalism to its own advantage. Originally published in the journal 'Telos' #39, 1979.

Angela Davis, Stalinist and leftist icon An in-depth 1970s analysis of how the management of black dissent by the black American middle-class/professional elite helped restructure capitalism to its own advantage. Originally published in the journal 'Telos' #39, 1979. Over forty years ago Benjamin pointed out that "mass reproduction is aided especially by the reproduction of masses." 1 This statement captures the central cultural dynamic of a "late" capitalism. The triumph of the commodity form over every sphere of social existence has been made possible by a profound homogenization of work, pl

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