Black refusal of proletarian discipline blocked formation of a petit bourgeoisie

Evidence

The Black radical tradition cast doubt on the extent to which capitalism penetrated and re-formed social life and on its ability to create entirely new categories of human experience stripped bare of the historical consciousness embedded in culture. It gave them cause to question the authority of a radical intelligentsia drawn by its own analyses from marginal and ambiguous social strata to construct an adequate manifestation of proletarian power. And it drew them more and more toward the actual discourse of revolutionary masses, the impulse to make history in their own terms. And finally, the Black radical tradition forced them to reevaluate the nature and historical roles of ideology and consciousness. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 839 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

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• The Black radical tradition challenges Western radicalism’s claims about capitalism and the vanguard intelligentsia. (similarity 0.84)
• Black radicals rejected doctrinaire Marxism that subordinated Black struggle (similarity 0.83)
• The Black petit bourgeoisie’s hybrid Western education drove its radicalization and critique (similarity 0.83)
• The Black radical tradition rejects capitalism’s power to erase historical consciousness in culture (similarity 0.83)
• Black radical historiography was founded by Western-educated Black petit-bourgeois intellectuals (similarity 0.83)
• The petit bourgeoisie assumed proletarian leadership and then betrayed it. (similarity 0.82)
• Communists failed to reach Black workers on their own terms (similarity 0.81)
• Black radicals emerged by turning to their own historical tradition (similarity 0.81)
• Black proletarians developed a psychic identity independent of bourgeois ideology. (similarity 0.81)
• The Black radical tradition challenged Western radicalism’s assumptions about capitalism and ideology (similarity 0.81)
• The Black radical tradition offers one part of the solution to Western civilization’s crisis. (similarity 0.80)
• Black radicalism is transcending nationalism and class struggle for its own authority (similarity 0.80)
• Western radicalism fled the recognition that racialism exceeds economic forces (similarity 0.80)
• Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• The Black radical tradition challenged Western radicalism’s assumptions about capitalism and ideology #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 839