Black mass migration and Populist alliance repudiated middle-class leadership.

Evidence

The most important consequence of these mass mobilizations, that is both the short-lived alliance with the agrarian rebellion of Populism and the urban migration, was that they amounted to a visible renunciation of the Black petit bourgeoisie’s “leadership” by the Black peasantry. Hundreds of thousands of Blacks demonstrated that they were no longer willing to tolerate the social and economic insecurities of living in the rural South, to work in semi-slavery as the nation’s cheapest labor, and to perish under the dual oppressions of the racist patronage of the white southern ruling class and the class opportunism of an ambitious and presumptuous Black petit bourgeoisie. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 909

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Connects to earlier discussion of the Black petit bourgeoisie’s leadership strategy from prior chapters of Black Marxism.

Related

• Mass Black migrations broke middle-class leadership and spawned class renegade radicals. (similarity 0.91)
• The Black masses’ mass migration repudiated petit bourgeois leadership and radicalized the intelligentsia (similarity 0.81)
• Northern capital abandoned Black allies once it dominated the southern economy (similarity 0.79)
• Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race (similarity 0.79)
• Racism as ideology, not production relations, blocked US class consciousness. (similarity 0.79)
• Black labor’s post-slavery mobility opened its subcultures to ruling-class penetration (similarity 0.78)
• Crowded migration and shared hostility forced Harlem Blacks into unified political organizations (similarity 0.78)
• Ruling classes crushed the biracial Populist alliance through violence and electoral suppression (similarity 0.78)
• The Volksgemeinschaft outcompeted communism by promising upward mobility and instant realization (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Ruling classes crushed the Populist alliance through violence and white supremacy. #expands (0.65) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 906
• Migration and hostility forced Black migrants to forge cross-cultural political organizations. #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1003
• American racism fused Black people into one mass preventing internal class divisions #complicates (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 919
• Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. #complicates (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 861
• Colonially educated blacks are repudiated by both Europeans and their own race #responds-to (0.40)