Anti-imperialist Black radicals still romanticized England as a correctionable ideal.

Evidence

Not even the gross imperfections and racism they confronted in the metropole dissuaded them. It was as though they had come to accept that as Black Englishmen a part of their political mission was to correct the errant motherland. Of all of them, it was James who would come closest to understanding why this was so. Doubtlessly it was his comprehension of English society that provided him with insight into British imperialism, British liberalism, and the British Left. On this score, he would proceed far beyond the economism of Engels, Marx, and many of the most recent British Marxists. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1236

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that even the most committed anti-imperialists clung to a romance-novel ideal of England as an errant motherland to be corrected—despite confronting racism daily—is a dense, paradoxic observation about ideology persisting against direct evidence.