Anti-imperialism was first centered in the metropole before decolonization returned home
Evidence
Only a few among them came to Britain for explicitly political purposes. Makonnen and Padmore did, but such others as Williams their predecessor and James their contemporary, acquired those purposes while living in Britain. Together, they helped to constitute that generation of Black intellectuals that—at their historical juncture-presumed or perhaps understood that the project of anti-imperialism had to be centered in the metropole. After their time and because of their work, decolonization and Black liberation would return to their native lands. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1227
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Ties to the wider chronological arc of the Black radical tradition’s rise — metropole-centered organizing as a phase before national liberation.
Related
- Black anticolonial intellectuals located their struggle in the imperial metropole before repatriating it home. (similarity 0.93)
- Black anti-imperialist intellectuals centered their struggle in the British metropole (similarity 0.83)
- Exposure to metropolitan English freedoms radicalized colonized Blacks into overthrowing empire (similarity 0.81)
- Anti-imperialist Black radicals still romanticized England as a correctionable ideal. (similarity 0.79)
- Colonial radicals weaponized British liberal traditions of free speech against the Empire (similarity 0.78)