Du Bois engaged Marx directly, unmediated by Leninist orthodoxy

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• Du Bois first reassessed Marxian revolution theory within American Marxism (similarity 0.84)
• Du Bois linked Russian peasant revolution to American Black struggle without orthodox Marxism (similarity 0.84)
• Marx derives the reality of content only from phenomena without granting it separate existence (similarity 0.83)
• Du Bois positioned slaves rather than industrial workers as revolutionary. (similarity 0.83)
• Marx criticized Feuerbach for separating theory from practice (similarity 0.82)
• Marx’s blind spot on slavery descended directly from Aristotle’s philosophy of slaves (similarity 0.82)
• Gramsci read the Bolsheviks as living Marx’s living thought against dogmatic determinism (similarity 0.82)
• Du Bois revised Marx’s theory by foregrounding mass action over class vanguard. (similarity 0.81)
• Marx broke with political economy by abstracting structures apart from individuals (similarity 0.81)
• Marx treats culture as a productive force materialized in labor and language (similarity 0.81)
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• Du Bois confined Marxism’s validity to mid-nineteenth-century Europe. (similarity 0.80)
• Du Bois confronted Marx unmediated by Leninist doctrine, forging Black radical theory (similarity 0.80)
• Marxist ideology carries a negative judgment and must be analyzed as superstructure (similarity 0.80)