Octavia Butler and the base for American socialism

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American historian Theodore Allen's concept of the base for socialism as a dialectical unity of opposites and the connection with the African American science fiction novelist Octavia Butler is explored. Butler's books are motivated by the problem of dialectical unity of the individual and the collective and in each of her 14 books it is argued that until this unity is perfected consciously, any attempt to restructure US society is doomed to merely reinvent the old bourgeois relation of production, wage labor and capital, or worse, slave and master.

Analysis, Criticism and interpretation, Socialism, Science fiction, Butler, Octavia E.

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Peculiar relations: White identity and imaginative literature

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The perception of "Whiteness" as a social construct and the way to defect it are probed. A new race theory from the U.S. academy, which argues that race, is both a category to organize group consciousness and a concept organizing individual subjectivities is understood.

African Americans, Racism, Civil rights, Social systems

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The demonization of pan-American nationalism

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The article states that the on-going demonization of pan-Arab nationalism has its roots in the earlier demonization of pan-American nationalism.

Political aspects, Arab nationalism, Pan-Americanism

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