Contemporary liberation movements stem from present global misery, not Marxism alone

Evidence

These three examples from ancient Athens, medieval Europe, and the modern New World are merely instances, moments, in the extraordinary historical index of liberation. Presently one might surmise that more attention is being given to liberation’s record than at any previous moment in Western historiography. At least in part, this is a legacy of Marxism. The more substantial inspiration, however, is the present state of the world. For the vast majority of the planet’s peoples, the global economy publicizes itself in human misery. Thus, the simple fact is that liberationist movements abound in the real world—a reason for attention far more weighty than the self-serving conceits of capitalist triumphalism and the incessant chants of globalism which followed upon the disintegration of the Soviet Union. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 76

Categorization

• XREF: Robinson’s insistence that present misery, not theoretical inheritance, drives liberationism speaks directly to the reader’s interest in the Black radical tradition’s origins as grounded, material practice rather than exported ideology.