Rod Bush

Rod Bush

Praise for "The Cost of Privilege"

The Cost of Privilege" an anti-racist book was written by North Carolina Freedom Road Socialist Organization member Chip Smith.

Several people, mostly Freedom Road Socialist Organization members wrote advance "praise blurbs" for the book's website .

Chip Smith and the large cast of characters who engaged in the production of The Cost of Privilege have given us a book of enormous power, scope, and analytic/practical insight. It locates white supremacy and racism as central to the systems of power within the United States and the larger world-system. But it points as well to race, class, and gender as interlocking forms of oppression, as opposed to viewing them as separate but related systems of oppression. Even more important this work not only locates these systems of oppression within a historical social system, it explains the role of oppressed strata in the development of knowledge about the social world, and strategies for changing that world. Smith and his comrades who have been in the forefront of the struggle against racism and white supremacy for some thirty years have given us an exemplary work which I place on a par with classics such as Robert Allen's Black Awakening in Capitalist America (1970), Bob Blauner's Racial Oppression in America (1972), and James Boggs's Racism and the Class Struggle (1970).

Rod Bush, author, We Are Not What We Seem: Black Nationalism and Class Struggle in the American Century.