Du Bois, James, and Wright came to Black radicalism through failed Marxist apprenticeships.

Evidence

For all three, though, Marxism had been the prior commitment, the first encompassing and conscious experience of organized opposition to racism, exploitation, and domination. As Marxists, their apprenticeships proved to be significant but ultimately unsatisfactory. In time, events and experience drew them toward Black radicalism and the discovery of a collective Black resistance inspired by an enduring cultural complex of historical apprehension. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 120

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