Black Marxist class analysis missed Jamaica’s cultural-revolutionary politics because industrialization was absent.

Evidence

The black Marxists were looking for the Jamaican proletariat, but there were no heavy industries in Jamaica; they were not listening to the cultural revolutionary thrust of the black nationalists and Rastafarians, who were developing a more persuasive cultural, or subjective, language. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 804

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the limits of orthodox class-based analysis that later theory readings on race and ethnicity will challenge; a concrete case of why cultural/subjective frameworks became necessary.