yes marxism is a incredibly important tool um for thinking you know uh for you know liberatory struggle but also there are traditions that are um indigenous to like black um to the like to the black community to black diaspora community —Christopher R. Rogers (auto-generated transcript)

Marxism can be a lens (tool) through which to look at the black community, but the black community has also changed Marxism.

How can we connect this to the McLuhan-esque idea of us shaping out tools and then them reshaping us?

cf. https://hypothes.is/a/6Znx6MiMEeu3ljcVBsKNOw

"We shape our tools and thereafter they shape us." — John M. Culkin cf.

the black radical tradition which is i think most um you know you know properly framed uh and uh through the work of cedric robinson um who talks about it um uh within the um book black marxism which was just re-released to unc press

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<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Christopher R. Rogers</span> in (71) “You Can Still Fight”: The Black Radical Tradition, Healing, and Literacies - YouTube (<time class='dt-published'>06/23/2021 21:27:53</time>)</cite></small>