Paths to Critical Theory - Adolph L. Reed Jr. Reed reflects on the political and intellectual trajectory of his youth, as the contradictions of black power, Trotskyism and the New Left pushed…
Black Particularity Reconsidered - Adolph L. Reed Jr. A critical retrospective on the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left through to the turn to black…
"Race Reductionism" Threatens to Doom the Left This essay was published at CounterPunch in 2022. It critiques the idea of reparations for slavery (from a Marxist point of view), and more…
Class Cancelled: The class reductionism debate continues to go nowhere - Asad Haider Asad Haider looks at the "class reductionism" debate and its limitations. This article was first…
Identity crisis: Leftist anti-wokeness is bullshit When criticism of ‘identity politics’ is just an argument for class representation under capitalism.
The limits of anti-racism - Adolph Reed Jr. The following article appeared in Left Business Observer #121, September 2009. Adolph Reed Jr. dissects 'anti-racism'. Unfortunately Reed deals…
"What are the drums saying, Booker?" - Adolph L. Reed Jr. Adolph Reed's hilarious and biting criticism of Cornel West, Michael Eric Dyson, Henry Louis Gates and the concept of the "black intellectual."
Black particularity reconsidered - Adolph L. Reed Jr. An in-depth 1970s analysis of how the management of black dissent by the black American middle-class…
