Black radicals could hold both staunch anti-communism and appreciation for British political leveling.

Evidence

Persistently anti-Communist throughout his life, a man who could and did beseech his brothers: “If you are interested in communism, then buy the book… . Don’t join the club!” Makonnen could still appreciate the “leveling” in British political life that minimized national groups and negated “the Negro Problem” that he had experienced as so prevalent in America. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1230

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to Robinson’s broader analysis of the Black radical tradition’s ambivalent and often non-Marxist relationship to Western communism.