Caribbean radicals rejected British parliamentarism by embracing Marxism
Evidence
“The ex-British colonials have got to break away from parliamentarism. I did it through becoming a Marxist.” Alan J. MacKenzie interview with James, “Radical Pan-Africanism in the 1930s,” Radical History Review 24 (Fall 1980): 71. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2357
Categorization
- XREF: Speaks directly to the reader’s causal question about how Black radicals broke from colonial politics — links James to the broader turn we see in the tradition’s arc.