Colonial revolution disproved that bourgeois ideas catalyze revolutionary consciousness

Evidence

This was a complete departure from the way in which Marx and Engels had conceptualized the transformative and rationalizing significance of the bourgeoisie. It implied (and James did not see this) that bourgeois culture and thought and ideology were irrelevant to the development of revolutionary consciousness among Black and other Third World peoples. It broke with the evolutionist chain in, the closed dialectic of, historical materialism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1290

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s arc question: the break with Marx’s evolutionism marks the theoretical founding of the Black radical tradition. — connects to: Third World solidarity was theorized as the only route to revolutionary awareness — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 651
• DEEPTHINKING: Central rupture in the tradition: peripheral masses generated revolutionary culture autonomously, breaking the closed dialectic of historical materialism.