— Kim Kellydrawing direct lines between the subjugation of the Black worker, the racist, capitalist exploitation that defined their working lives, and the promise of uniting workers along industrial lines. His speeches deftly illustrated the concept of “racial capitalism” nearly a century before Cedric Robinson defined the term in his 1983 book, Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition.
Replicated under Fair Use from Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly.