Black radicals emerged by turning to their own historical tradition

Evidence

From such moments as these, each in his own time, turned his face to the historical tradition of Black liberation and became Black radicals. They began the realization of their history and their theoretical task. We shall now consider how this came about and what were its several theoretical and ideological significations. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 869

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• The Black radical tradition abandons Western ideologies for its own independent authority. (similarity 0.88)
• Black radical theory was nurtured in the diaspora, not in Africa itself. (similarity 0.87)
• Black intellectuals’ nurture as Blacks outweighed Marxism in forging radical consciousness. (similarity 0.87)
• The Black radical movement outweighed Marxism’s influence even on its most Westernized intellectuals (similarity 0.86)
• The Black radical tradition challenges Western radicalism’s claims about capitalism and the vanguard intelligentsia. (similarity 0.86)
• Black radicalism’s unconsciousness of itself as tradition has costs (similarity 0.86)
• Marxism’s explanatory power made it irresistible to Black radical intellectuals (similarity 0.86)
• The radical Black intelligentsia had to pursue liberation without European Left support. (similarity 0.86)
• Black revolutionary consciousness derives from the whole historical experience of Black people. (similarity 0.86)
• Marxism proved a gateway that three thinkers passed through to Black radicalism (similarity 0.86)
• Betrayals by British Left and Comintern drove Black radicals inward to their own tradition. (similarity 0.85)
• Black revolutionary theory emerged independently from European radical movements (similarity 0.85)
• Stage-theory historiography erased long-standing precedents of Black radicalism. (similarity 0.85)
• Black radicalism constitutes an autonomous tradition, not reducible to opposition to capitalism. (similarity 0.85)
• Black radicals rejected Marxism for its Eurocentric blindness to racialism’s role in capitalism (similarity 0.85)