Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race

Evidence

The dismissal of culture, that is, a transmitted historical consciousness, as an aspect of class consciousness, did not equip the Marxian movement for the political forces that would not only erupt in Europe and the Third World but within the movement itself. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363 (#complicates, via linked claim)

In the New World there were also changes. The systems of reconstitution of Black communities were, as well, assaulted by forms of forced labor: peonage, share-cropping, and less than subsistence farming. Moreover, Black workers were subject to displacement from productive land and to publicly and privately organized campaigns of terror and intimidation. Ineluctably, resistance was propelled toward new forms, new consciousness, and new ideologies. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism; Black radicalism is transcending nationalism and class struggle for its own authority; Robinson rejected all universalist theories, not just Marxism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 26 (+16 more)

Related

• Post-emancipation forced labor pushed Black resistance toward new ideologies (similarity 0.85)
• Proletarianization was replacing Black Christian resignation with angry consciousness. (similarity 0.85)
• Black nationalism arose natively from Black super-exploitation in the United States (similarity 0.85)
• Black nationalism formed a historical stage within a more universal consciousness. (similarity 0.85)
• Racial repression shifted form with each change in Black labor exploitation (similarity 0.84)
• Black labor’s post-slavery mobility opened its subcultures to ruling-class penetration (similarity 0.84)
• Exploitation’s contradictions across the Black world produced radical ideologues. (similarity 0.83)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces (similarity 0.83)
• Black radicalism is transcending nationalism and class struggle for its own authority (similarity 0.82)
• Black survival in struggle requires self-defined culture and consciousness, not imported theory (similarity 0.82)
• Marxism proved a gateway that three thinkers passed through to Black radicalism (similarity 0.82)
• Early Black Marxists blamed Marxist parties’ failure on refusing to engage Black realities (similarity 0.82)
• Marxism failed Black radicals because it misconprehended peasant and colonial liberation struggles (similarity 0.82)
• Marxism’s apparent universalism proved inadequate for Black radicals tied to peasant and colonial bases. (similarity 0.82)
• Black mass culture evolved from resistance to slavery and a racial social order (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Black radicals rejected doctrinaire Marxism that subordinated Black struggle #expands (0.75)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #complicates (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363
• Post-emancipation forced labor pushed Black resistance toward new ideologies #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434