Black Communists’ dogmatism alienated them from their own potential allies

Evidence

The blindness of their limited lives—lives truncated and impoverished by the oppression they had suffered long before they had ever heard of Communism-made them think that I was with their enemies. American life had so corrupted their consciousness that they were unable to recognize their friends when they saw them. I know that if they had held state power I should have been declared guilty of treason. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1360