Class arrogance and xenophobia blocked British Communism from dominating the proletariat

Evidence

Nevertheless, class arrogance, bitter divisions between workers and the class of the intelligentsia, the residues of xenophobia (so central in the earlier century to the role of Irish workers in the British working-class movement and later as a support for imperialism), all worked against the possibility of the British Communist movement becoming a dominant force among the country’s proletariat. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1223

Categorization

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