Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction revised capitalism, consciousness, and organization theory.

Evidence

Among the several truths that Du Bois set out to establish in Black Reconstruction, there were a number that related directly to Marxist and Leninist theory. Specifically, his ideas concerned the emergence of capitalism; the nature of revolutionary consciousness; and the nature of revolutionary organization. As we recall, first Du Bois would insist on the world-historical significance of American slavery in the emergence of modern capitalism and imperialism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1075

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• Black Reconstruction marked Du Bois’s turn to Marxist-inflected theoretical history. (similarity 0.91)
• Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction advanced a mass-action theory of history diverging from Marx. (similarity 0.91)
• Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction revised Marx’s theory of revolution around mass action (similarity 0.90)
• The slaves’ revolutionary consciousness constituted a historical force against racism and capitalism (similarity 0.87)
• Du Bois insisted Black people’s historical significance lay in their labor, not enslaved status. (similarity 0.87)
• Du Bois first reassessed Marxian revolution theory within American Marxism (similarity 0.87)
• Du Bois revised Marx’s theory by foregrounding mass action over class vanguard. (similarity 0.87)
• Black Reconstruction marked Du Bois’s first break with the Black elite he belonged to (similarity 0.86)
• Reconstruction was the hinge where world capitalism assumed its modern shape. (similarity 0.86)
• Du Bois positioned slaves rather than industrial workers as revolutionary. (similarity 0.85)
• Black revolutionary consciousness derives from the whole historical experience of Black people. (similarity 0.85)
• Du Bois deemed Marx’s philosophy valid only for mid-nineteenth-century Europe (similarity 0.85)
• Du Bois grounded Reconstruction’s fall in economic class forces. (similarity 0.84)
• Du Bois reconceptualized American slavery as a subsystem of world capitalism (similarity 0.84)
• The Black bourgeoisie’s class interests diverged from Black labor during Reconstruction (similarity 0.84)