Black party members’ dogmatism shielded them from psychological destruction

Evidence

Wright believed that racism, the very character of the system by which Black workers had been exploited, had mediated their internalization of the ruling ideas of American society. He went on to assert that, unlike the dominant sectors of European and Euro-American proletariats, the Black proletariat—historically from the legal and political disciplines of slavery to its peculiar condition as free wage labor—had developed a psychic and cultural identity independent from bourgeois ideology. This construction of Wright’s pushed the insights of Du Bois61 and others far beyond the critique of Black-white labor solidarity. What Wright was suggesting went even beyond the most extreme position in the 1930s of American radicals that Blacks were the vanguard of the American working class. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1392 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black proletarians developed a psychic identity independent of bourgeois ideology. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1392; Sartre’s relativizing destroyed black Americans’ zeal collectively — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 512

Related

• Black proletarians developed a psychic identity independent of bourgeois ideology. (similarity 0.89)
• Black Communists’ dogmatism alienated them from their own potential allies (similarity 0.79)
• Wright initially distrusted the Communist Party as a white man’s organization (similarity 0.79)
• Sartre’s relativizing destroyed black Americans’ zeal collectively (similarity 0.79)
• American slavery integrated Blacks into production while barring bourgeois ideology (similarity 0.79)
• Capitalism integrated Blacks into production while shielding them from bourgeois ideology (similarity 0.78)
• Communist leadership ignored the psychological fragmentation truncating workers’ historical role (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Black proletarians developed a psychic identity independent of bourgeois ideology. #corroborates (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1392