ABSTRACT

“Trump, Zuma, Brexit” aims to articulate a new theory of the “world historical” reversing the relationship of north and south – of “universal knowledge” and “raw fact” – instead establishing a theoretical ground from the southern hemisphere and toward the north. The echoes and parallels of the current political, economic, and social moment across the distinct national geographies of South Africa, the US, and the UK, suggest two things: one, that white supremacy, neoliberal capitalism, and extreme inequality are foundational to the current world order; and two, that South Africa offers a very particular perspective. The paradox of anti-Black racism in South Africa – the fact that Black people remain the primary extractive targets of racial capitalism despite the country’s democratic transition – begins to show how intractable the problem of racial capitalism is both in its geographical extent and given its historical reach from the moment of the rise of Atlantic capitalism into the present.

摘要

“特朗普，祖马，英国脱欧”旨在阐明一种新的“世界历史”理论，颠覆了南北关系-即“普遍知识”和“原始事实”-而建立了从南半球到朝着南半球的理论基础。北。在南非，美国和英国这两个不同的国家地理上，当前政治，经济和社会时刻的回声和相似之处表明了两点：第一，白人至上，新自由主义资本主义和极端不平等是造成这一现象的基础。当前的世界秩序；第二，南非提供了非常特殊的视角。