Colonial oppression itself generated the revolutionary resistance that opposed it

Evidence

As a structural process, its dynamics were seated in the very expansion of imperialism. This was the dialectic of imperialism and liberation, the contradiction that compelled the appearance of resistance and revolution out of the condition of oppression—even from its ideology. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 827

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in the Black radical tradition’s causal mechanics; also resonates with dialectical-materialist accounts of revolution arising from oppression in writers like Fanon and Marx. — connects to: Imperialism is the primary object of socialist resistance — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 1344; Exclusionary and repressive weak states bred revolution while tolerant ones did not. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1086