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Against the ‘Compatible’ Radical Academic Left

Rethinking Racism and Capitalism

Derek R. Ford

Introduction: Reclaiming the revolutionary communist tradition The relationship or antagonism between class and race has plagued educational theory for decades. Some scholarship was generally about Marxism and postmodernism in the 1990s; recent focus centres on particular readings of Marxism emanating from imperialist academies, on the one hand, and racial theories emanating from the same place, […]

Derek R. Ford

Derek R. Ford is a teacher, organiser and educational theorist who serves as associate professor of education studies at DePauw University and as an instructor with The People’s Forum. Their work has appeared in a range of academic journals, including Critical Education and Cultural Studies as well as popular outlets like Black Agenda Report, Monthly Review, Peace, Land and Bread and the International Magazine. They also hosted the popular podcast series Reading ‘Capital’ with Comrades.

They’ve published eight monographs, the latest of which is Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Unlearning and the Sensations of Struggle (2023). Ford is the editor of Liberation School and a contributing editor at the Hampton Institute, as well as an organiser with the Indianapolis Liberation Center, ANSWER Coalition, the International Manifesto Group and others. You can reach them at derekford@depauw.edu

Recent works by Derek include: