Charles Mills on Marxism and Race, or Why White Marxists should Be Black Nationalists

Charles Mills thinks that although Marxism and liberalism give opposing accounts of modernity their accounts are still both part of a larger European Enlightenment narrative that ultimately is Eurocentric. (a) What does he mean? (pp. 149-150) (b) And why does he think that moral egalitarianism—i.e. that each person matters equally—being the bedrock principle that it is of modern political theories such as liberalism, conservatism and socialism ultimately is a white Eurocentric principle? (p. 150)
Why does Mills also think that purportedly colorless, raceless Marxist analyses of Capitalism typically are white? (pp. 151-155)
Mills speaks of race rather than class as the “primary contradiction”. (a) What does he mean? (pp. 156-157) (b) And why does he claim, tongue-in-cheek, that white Marxists should be black nationalists? (pp. 158-160)
(a) What is the Oppression Symmetry Thesis? (pp. 161-162) (b) Why is it false? (pp. 162-163) (c) And how is Marxism committed to it? (pp. 163-164)
Why does Mills think that there’s a general need to reconceptualize Marxism to take race into account and what are some of his suggestions as to how it may be done? (pp. 166-171)

The Critique of the Concept of Racism