Colonialism itself generated the radical intelligentsia that opposed it

Evidence

Therefore, the first waves of African New World revolts were governed not by a critique of Western society but rather a total rejection of the experience of enslavement and racism. More intent on preserving a past than transforming Western society or overthrowing capitalism, they created maroon settlements, ran away, became outliers, and tried to find a way home, even if it meant death. However, with the advent of formal colonialism and the incorporation of Black labor into a more fully governed social structure, a more direct critique of the West and colonialism emerged—a revolt set on transforming social relations and revolutionizing Western society rather then reproducing African social life. The contradictions of colonialism produced the native bourgeoisie, more intimate with European life and thought, whose assigned task was to help rule. Trained to be junior partners in the colonial state, members of this bourgeoisie experienced both racism from Europeans and a deep sense of alienation from their native lives and cultures. Their contradictory role as victims of racial domination and tools in the empire, as Western educated elites feeling like aliens among the dominant society as well as among the masses, compelled some of these men and women to revolt, thus producing the radical Black intelligentsia. It is no accident that many of these radicals and scholars emerged both during the First World War, when they recognized the vulnerability of Western civilization, and the second world crisis—the international depression and the rise of fascism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 21 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Educated colonials who adopt radical thought are charged with ingratitude; Educated colonials suffer an intellectual alienation unlike laborers’ material exploitation.; Imperialism itself generated the resistance and revolution that opposed it (+8 more)

Related

• Colonial contradictions produced the radical Black intelligentsia from the native bourgeoisie (similarity 0.94)
• Black radical historiography was founded by Western-educated Black petit-bourgeois intellectuals (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial rule itself generated the nationalist intelligentsia that overthrew it (similarity 0.88)
• The new republic faced colonial dualism, illiteracy, and an unprepared elite (similarity 0.88)
• Anticolonial struggles birthed a Black radical intelligentsia that critiqued and relocated socialist theory (similarity 0.86)
• Ex-colonial intellectuals shaped the New Left and Cultural Studies from its origins (similarity 0.86)
• The Black Radical Tradition accreted collective intelligence from generations of slave struggle (similarity 0.85)
• Imperialism matured the very social forces that later resisted it (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial oppression itself generated the revolutionary resistance that opposed it (similarity 0.84)
• Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism (similarity 0.84)
• Exploitation’s contradictions across the Black world produced radical ideologues. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial revolution disproved that bourgeois ideas catalyze revolutionary consciousness (similarity 0.82)
• Slaves’ West and Central African roots shaped New World resistance to slavery. (similarity 0.82)
• Black radicalism is an autonomous African response, not a Black variant of Western radicalism (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial control of elite formation failed because elite nationalism fed the Black radical tradition (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonial contradictions produced the radical Black intelligentsia from the native bourgeoisie #corroborates (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 21
• Colonial rule’s native strata produced a renegade nationalist intelligentsia #expands (0.80)
• The radical intelligentsia found, not invented, the Black Radical Tradition #contradicts (0.70)
• Resistance itself transforms the colonized subject so that colonial rule becomes unmaintainable #expands (0.60)