Depression-era America was already living through a revolution, not approaching one
Evidence
[T]he matter of greatest import is that instead of our facing today a stable world, moving at a uniform rate of progress toward well-defined goals, we are facing revolution. I trust you will not be as scared by this word as you were Thursday [Du Bois was referring to the audienceās reaction to a speech by Dr. Broadus Mitchell of Johns Hopkins University]. I am not discussing a coming revolution, I am trying to impress the fact upon you that you are already in the midst of a revolution; you are already in the midst of war; that there has been no war of modern times that has taken so great a sacrifice of human life and human spirit as the extraordinary period through which we are passing today. ā Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Blackā¦, 922
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- QUESTION: How does this ārevolution as present conditionā framing inform how contemporary crises get read?
Related
- Du Bois held that genuine revolution precedes visible convulsion and is already underway. (similarity 0.86)
- Du Bois read the 1930s Depression and the slavery crisis as analogous capitalist transformations (similarity 0.81)
- The breakdown of Western civilization presently creates opportunity for resistance movements (similarity 0.80)
- Peoples enter revolution through their own cultural terms, not imported ideology (similarity 0.78)
- The post-Reconstruction abandonment of Black labor led toward world war (similarity 0.78)