Both Du Bois and Washington missed capitalism’s exploitative core

Evidence

These two theories of Negro progress were not absolutely contradictory. Neither I nor Booker Washington understood the nature of capitalistic exploitation of labor, and the necessity of a direct attack on the principle of exploitation as the beginning of labor uplift. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 901

Categorization

• XREF: This self-critique echoes the Marxist critique of race uplift that Robinson builds toward; connects to chapter 10-11 on Du Bois’s later radical turn.