Ethiopia’s 1936 occupation pushed James beyond European radical doctrine toward Black-radical theory.

Evidence

The lesson sank deeper than he imagined. His tutorship under European radical thought had come to an end. From this point on his work would leap beyond the doctrinaire constructions of the anti-Stalinist Left and Engels and Marx themselves. The force of the Black radical tradition merged with the exigencies of Black masses in movement to form a new theory and ideology in James’s writings. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1273

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s goal of tracing the Black radical tradition’s development; connects to the book’s overall argument about Black masses becoming revolutionary subjects.