Frank B. Wilderson III

"Capital was kick-started by the rape of the African continent, a phenomenon that is central to neither Gramsci nor Marx. ... Capital was kick-started by approaching a particular body with direct relat…"

"In The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon makes two moves with respect to civil society. First, he locates its genuine manifestation in Europe—the motherland. Then, with respect to the colony, he locates it…"

"The black subject reveals the inability of social movements grounded in Gramscian discourse to think of white supremacy as the base and thereby calls into question their claim to elaborate a comprehen…"

"The worker calls into question the legitimacy of productive practices, while the slave calls into question the legitimacy of productivity itself."

"We begin to see how Marxism suffers from a kind of conceptual anxiety. There is a desire for socialism on the other side of crisis, a society that does away not with the category of worker but with th…"

"Whiteness, then—and, by extension, civil society cannot be solely “represented” as some monumentalized coherence of phallic signifiers but must first be understood as a social formation of contemporar…"