I think it’s ridiculous to put Davis as high as Hampton, and if Davis can be as high as A, Mao and those above him go in SSS. And then Ture and Parenti are in B?? Below Davis??? Parenti grievously erred in supporting Gorbachev, Davis grievously erred in supporting Kamala fucking Harris.
Completely unrelated, it’s like a caricature of grade inflation that S is now just A, though I guess that’s been true for many years now. I think S should be reserved for cases that exceed the scale, which at best you could argue for the first three but really, from a Marxist perspective, should not apply to anyone because it suggests a fundamental inadequacy of the scale that a person could simply uniquely exceed your ability to measure people. A scale where almost 20% of the entries exceed the scale is probably a bad scale.
Honestly, Davis didn’t do much relative to most people on this list. Pretty much all Black Radicals that people know like Malcolm X, or George Jackson or Mumia Abu-Jamal did more than her. Even going strictly by Marxism since not all Black Radicals were Marxist, she’s not a major political figure and she didn’t theoretically contribute anywhere close compared with someone like Gramsci. Meanwhile, Dr. Huey P. Newton was the cofounder of the BPP on top of adding his own theoretical contributions (the revolutionary potential of the lumpen-proletariat in settler/colonial contexts, intercommunalism).
I think it’s ridiculous to put Davis as high as Hampton, and if Davis can be as high as A, Mao and those above him go in SSS. And then Ture and Parenti are in B?? Below Davis??? Parenti grievously erred in supporting Gorbachev, Davis grievously erred in supporting Kamala fucking Harris.
Came here to post literally this, thanks for beating me to it.
I think it’s ridiculous to put Davis as high as Hampton, and if Davis can be as high as A, Mao and those above him go in SSS. And then Ture and Parenti are in B?? Below Davis??? Parenti grievously erred in supporting Gorbachev, Davis grievously erred in supporting Kamala fucking Harris.
Completely unrelated, it’s like a caricature of grade inflation that S is now just A, though I guess that’s been true for many years now. I think S should be reserved for cases that exceed the scale, which at best you could argue for the first three but really, from a Marxist perspective, should not apply to anyone because it suggests a fundamental inadequacy of the scale that a person could simply uniquely exceed your ability to measure people. A scale where almost 20% of the entries exceed the scale is probably a bad scale.
Honestly, Davis didn’t do much relative to most people on this list. Pretty much all Black Radicals that people know like Malcolm X, or George Jackson or Mumia Abu-Jamal did more than her. Even going strictly by Marxism since not all Black Radicals were Marxist, she’s not a major political figure and she didn’t theoretically contribute anywhere close compared with someone like Gramsci. Meanwhile, Dr. Huey P. Newton was the cofounder of the BPP on top of adding his own theoretical contributions (the revolutionary potential of the lumpen-proletariat in settler/colonial contexts, intercommunalism).
Came here to post literally this, thanks for beating me to it.