Critics doubted Du Bois’s Marxism went beyond Marx’s pages on English slave-trade wealth

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• Du Bois engaged Marx directly, unmediated by Leninist orthodoxy (similarity 0.91)
• Marx’s blind spot on slavery descended directly from Aristotle’s philosophy of slaves (similarity 0.86)
• Marx derives the reality of content only from phenomena without granting it separate existence (similarity 0.84)
• Marx criticized Feuerbach for separating theory from practice (similarity 0.84)
• Engels’s defenses of Marxism were trapped by the very concepts they defended (similarity 0.83)
• Gramsci read the Bolsheviks as living Marx’s living thought against dogmatic determinism (similarity 0.83)
• Du Bois grounded Reconstruction’s fall in economic class forces. (similarity 0.83)
• Du Bois positioned slaves rather than industrial workers as revolutionary. (similarity 0.83)
• Du Bois confined Marxism’s validity to mid-nineteenth-century Europe. (similarity 0.83)
• Marx broke with political economy by abstracting structures apart from individuals (similarity 0.83)
• Du Bois first reassessed Marxian revolution theory within American Marxism (similarity 0.82)
• Marx treats culture as a productive force materialized in labor and language (similarity 0.82)
• Historians dispute whether slave labor drove capitalist growth (similarity 0.82)
• Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction revised capitalism, consciousness, and organization theory. (similarity 0.82)
• Black Reconstruction marked Du Bois’s turn to Marxist-inflected theoretical history. (similarity 0.82)