Comintern orthodoxy narrowed revolutionary class to industrial workers while dismissing colonial masses

Evidence

The dismissal of culture, that is, a transmitted historical consciousness, as an aspect of class consciousness, did not equip the Marxian movement for the political forces that would not only erupt in Europe and the Third World but within the movement itself. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Lenin replaced class consciousness with the vanguard party in revolutionary theory — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1120; The gulf between class struggle and anti-imperialist struggle began to close; Revolutionary cadres divorced from the masses cannot sustain a revolution (+5 more)

Related

• Lenin substituted the party for the rise of class consciousness (similarity 0.87)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces (similarity 0.85)
• The gulf between class struggle and anti-imperialist struggle began to close (similarity 0.85)
• Sole reliance on the working class distinguished the liberal antifascist position from Marxism (similarity 0.84)
• Marxist class categories froze into a fixed historical image of class (similarity 0.84)
• Lenin replaced class consciousness with the vanguard party in revolutionary theory (similarity 0.84)
• The 1930s lacked a militant radical working-class culture despite socialist expectation (similarity 0.83)
• Western Marxism failed as a total theory of liberation (similarity 0.83)
• Anglo-Marxists neglected the state while fixating on ideology within the superstructures (similarity 0.83)
• Working-class movements accommodated capitalism while theory idealized a revolutionary proletariat (similarity 0.82)
• The early industrial working class was a minority of laborers (similarity 0.81)
• The petit bourgeois intelligentsia dominated Marxist theory and the Bolshevik revolution (similarity 0.80)
• Marx’s novelty lay in siding with the proletariat, not in analyzing exploitation (similarity 0.80)
• The European proletariat was not history’s sole revolutionary subject (similarity 0.80)
• Ethnic nationalism within the party defeated Americanizing Marxism (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #expands (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363
• Working-class movements accommodated capitalism while theory idealized a revolutionary proletariat #corroborates (0.55)
• Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them #corroborates (0.35)