Ethiopia’s fall ended James’s tutelage under European radical thought.

Evidence

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

• DEEPTHINKING: The moment a colonized intellectual breaks from the metropolitan master-theory and begins theorizing from the Black masses’ own movement is a genuinely paradigm-leaping transition in intellectual history.