Du Bois confined Marxism’s validity to mid-nineteenth-century Europe.

Evidence

This left a monumental gap in the analysis of capitalism and its developments, assigning Marx’s own work to a specific historical period. Du Bois would conclude, while working on Black Reconstruction, that “we can only say, as it seems to me, that the Marxian philosophy is a true diagnosis of the situation in Europe in the middle of the nineteenth century despite some of its logical difficulties.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1119

Categorization

• XREF: Pays off Robinson’s central contention about Marxism as historically bounded; links to Du Bois studies and postcolonial theory.