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The maintenance of hegemony…

June 7, 2020
kamaurashid
Political-economy

The maintenance of hegemony is enhanced via the fabrication of finite outlets via which voices of discontent can be directed and controlled. Absent this, oppositional forces might grow to the point of actually threatening the established order.

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The aftermath of “empire” or Towards a more grotesque spectacle of power

May 11, 2020
kamaurashid
Political-economy

I do not believe in prophecy or the inevitability of the triumph of justice over injustice. I do believe that the current administration has and will continue to hasten the unraveling of the US. I do not believe that such

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The African-centered critique of capitalism: Some basic considerations

April 9, 2020
kamaurashid
Culture, Political-economy

It is true that capitalism must be critiqued. It is also true that it must be replaced. For African-centered scholars neither the critique of this system or the conceptualization of alternatives to it can logically draw from the culture which

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Globalization and crisis and what lies beyond

March 17, 2020
kamaurashid
Political-economy

Since the 1990s, globalization has been heralded as a means whereby humans would achieve a higher quality of life and greater prosperity. Of course we know that such claims were greatly exaggerated as globalization, as a process, has produced profoundly

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Thinking about Du Bois and Ambedkar

February 9, 2020
kamaurashid
Political-economy

One day, when the current writing projects are completed, I plan to devote some time to writing about B.R. Ambedkar and W.E.B. Du Bois. One area where I appreciate Ambedkar, was in his critique of Marxism vis-a-vis his interpretation of

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Ujamaa: Economics and African Values

December 29, 2018
kamaurashid
Culture, Political-economy

Eric Williams’s monumental work Capitalism and Slavery captures the synergistic links between the rise of modern capitalism and white racism. In it, Williams argues that racism, as an ideological framework that argued for and sought to concretize in the realm

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Democracy, capitalism, socialism, and fascism

October 28, 2018
kamaurashid
Political-economy

I wonder if folks have considered that so-called liberal democracy may have been an ephemeral mode of governance born of a unique convergence of industrial capitalism and increasingly irrelevant monarchies. Marx’s predictions of socialism’s inevitable ascendance notwithstanding, the seamless alignment

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On investing in Africa and “uneven development”

May 17, 2016
kamaurashid
Political-economy

I recently watched a video where a financial expert offered advice for diasporan Africans seeking to invest in Africa. She highlighted two areas of particular concern to the state and commercial interests: agribusiness and real estate. The agribusiness discussion touched

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On repatriation

January 13, 2016
kamaurashid
Political-economy

Some brief reflections on the article Nigeria: The “repats” who have returned. This is a promising development. It is also somewhat unsurprising. While the Black elite has fared marginally well in the West, the suffering of the masses reflects the tenuous

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On capitalism and post-capitalism: Five perspectives

December 28, 2015
kamaurashid
Political-economy

“Every decisive gain achieved by the anti-capitalist forces will be countered by the state against the working class. This repression will be significantly greater against Blacks and other national minorities than experienced by other sectors of the working class. Socialists

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