Black historical being exceeds what historical materialism can capture

Evidence

I have investigated the failed efforts to render the historical being of Black peoples into a construct of historical materialism, to signify our existence as merely an opposition to capitalist organization. We are that (because we must be) but much more. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 106

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the book’s core thesis in the author’s own terms: Blackness is not reducible to an anti-capitalist construct.
• XREF: This states plainly the causal frame for the whole rise-and-fall arc: where materialist analysis misfits Black being, the tradition’s independent authority is where it lives.