These arguments have been established by a long tradition of scholarship -- WEB du Bois, CLR James, Cedric Robinson, Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, Claudia Jones, Utsa Patnaik, Ali Kadri, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin and more -- and they remain as relevant today as ever.

thank u professor jason

The assertion that arguments by figures like W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James, and Angela Davis remain relevant today is accurate, as their ideas continue to be actively studied, applied, and built upon in contemporary scholarship and social movements.

Their work is still central to academic fields such as Black Studies, sociology, and political science and informs current discussions on racism, capitalism, and global inequality.

So what do you suggest that we should do?

Take back the commons.

Abolish capitalism before it wipes us out. Share resources. Treat people and the environment fairly.

But how are we going to convince the majority, that we should abolish capitalism? What will we replace it with? Do we need a plan of some sort? Is there a party we can vote for with such a vision and a plan?

I think if put to 'the majority', an informed majority, they wouldn't need convincing. Capitalism only leads to mass poverty and disparity and, ultimately, the destruction of the surface of our planet. We'll literally destroy our species whilst also killing billions of other life forms. No-brainier

I agree, but there are no political parties that support this idea?

In this country? I think Sultana and Corbyns new party might head in that general direction? The Greens too. Not as far as what I would personally want or stipulated. They're our only hope of preventing fascism here, atm

Do you think they could win the next elections? Why not?

I absolutely pray they do! 🙏🏾

A community, country, world based on socialist ideals of sharing resources, promoting nature and caring for people is also a no-brainer

Any direction away from capitalism and it's imperial nature and the destruction it literally feeds on has to be the path we all take. Otherwise it's oblivion

delicense an oil major

I am afraid, that I do not understand that. I am Dutch, maybe I lack context.

No, being Dutch is not why you don't understand. No one does. Am I just crazy? Being Dutch, I expect you understand what an oil company is, even if RoyalDutchShell did move to the UK. Can you not imagine a way that the issuer of a sovereign currency could destroy an oil company?

I think we need the oil, for the time being, while we make an inventory of necessary knowledge, design a sustainable society, and migrate to that society. But oil companies could be nationalized?

Nationalizing would just invest the nation in them; then it'd be even more difficult to make them go away, according to the IPCC schedule. There are how many, say 10 oil companies? Just destroy one per year, then we might survive.

There would be chaos, anarchy. We nee a good plan that will bring people together, I think.

I disagree. I think oil companies are the source of the corruption and chaos we are currently experiencing.

You would have to design a society that can do without oil, and implement that, before we can do without oil.

Struggle against racism is inherently anti-capitalist but you can struggle against capitalism without opposing racism

no you can't

You can't imagine racist feudalism?

oh, so you are talking about anti-capitalism as presented by pre-capitalism, I thought you were talking about it in a post-capitalist/communist way

I hae no idea how you got there. I was talking about everything that isn't capitalism. That's it.

op's post is about overcoming capitalism in a progressive manner, so I didn't think anyone would presume he was talking about going backwards in the wheel of history as something to achieve

"wheel of history" seems a very weird concept. He used "must" twice for things that are very different and I thought merited clarification. The first is an absolute precondition, the second merely a moral imperative.

you must really be fun at parties, I think

Nope

lol