https://videos.domainepublic.net/videos/watch/63a7b2b1-f6cc-4163-8c83-b416ba0f0184 INTRODUCING THE NEW EDITOR OF MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS! James Boggs' "Racism and the Class Struggle" became a seminal text for the Civil Rights and Black Power Movement activism of the 1960s. And it was one of the books that inspired Arun Kundnani to join Monthly Review Press as our new editor. Jimmy Boggs saw what was coming...and today we are living it. We are experiencing the apex and the implosion of the American empire. The beginning of the end of the American empire was visible in Detroit half a century ago. In "Racism and the Class Struggle" Detroit organizer James Boggs wrestled with the problems of the specific character of American capitalism and American democracy, the historic mission of the black revolution in the United States, and the need for the 1960s black movement to develop theoretically and organizationally. This collection of essays includes Bogg's remarkable "The City Is the Black Man's Land," an article anticipating the black nationalist programs that were to emerge in the later 1960s. Boggs hails the coming of what was at the time the new slogan of the black revolution with an essay called, "Black Power: A Scientific Concept Whose Time Has Come." In further essays, he hammers at his theme of the "second civil war" and black control of the cities. In his concluding piece, written especially for this book, Boggs evaluates and analyzes the movement of the late 1960s and its various groups. See: https://monthlyreview.org/9781583678763/ Also see two other MRP Classics that inspired Kundnani to join MRP: -Aimé Césaire's 'Discourse on Colonialism': https://youtu.be/tFICq8Gq75I -Intan Suwandi's 'Value Chains': https://youtu.be/v6S-t_HbIgs?si=O7gxqQuE03WJcgKO MONTHLY REVIEW BACKGROUND: Monthly Review is an educational publisher, featuring a small and selected, but influential school of scholarly analysis which fills a demonstrable gap in the arena of socialist scholarship. Monthly Review Magazine and Monthly Review Press have been leading publishers of left scholarship since 1949. The first issue of Monthly Review (May 1949) featured Einstein's classic essay, "Why Socialism?" (now available as a book.) Other seminal works include "Discourse on Colonialism," "Eurocentrism," "Open Veins of Latin America," among many others. Our mission since the start has been to offer readers a responsible platform for neglected and emerging scholarship grounded in critical analyses of capitalism, on a wide range of progressive issues. Monthly Review’s distinctive contribution to the world of ideas has advanced an analysis that helps to explain the tendency of contemporary capitalism toward slow growth and stagnation, the growing environmental catastrophe, the continuing and deepening economic inequality between the rich and poor nations, and between the rich and poor everywhere. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 07:14:47 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://videos.domainepublic.net https://videos.domainepublic.net/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://videos.domainepublic.net/videos/watch/63a7b2b1-f6cc-4163-8c83-b416ba0f0184 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://videos.domainepublic.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.