Ethnic nationalism within the party defeated Americanizing Marxism

Evidence

In the political field, nationalism is the fact against which the Marxist theory breaks itself. Here is a force which has proved definitely stronger in the modern world than the class struggle which for orthodox Marxists makes the essence of history. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The dismissal of culture, that is, a transmitted historical consciousness, as an aspect of class consciousness, did not equip the Marxian movement for the political forces that would not only erupt in Europe and the Third World but within the movement itself. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Thatcherism fused free-market individualism with ethnic nationalism and authoritarian policing; Nationalism defeated the Second International yet undergirded the Third International’s Marxism; Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them (+10 more)

Related

• Nationalism defeated the Second International yet undergirded the Third International’s Marxism (similarity 0.89)
• Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world (similarity 0.85)
• English nationalism displaced class solidarity after Chartism’s defeat. (similarity 0.84)
• Nationalism defeated the Second International yet enabled the Third International. (similarity 0.84)
• An international class must nationalise itself to lead nationally-rooted social strata (similarity 0.83)
• Nationalism subverted socialism and overtook capitalist development worldwide (similarity 0.82)
• Marxism’s economism forced the conclusion that nationalism was a backward, diversionary ideology. (similarity 0.82)
• Marxist theory underestimated nationalism due to a flawed grasp of capitalism’s depth. (similarity 0.81)
• Preventing nationalist war requires abandoning the myth that Marxism resists nationalism (similarity 0.81)
• Revolutionary socialism triumphed only in predominantly peasant societies (similarity 0.81)
• Western Marxism failed as a total theory of liberation (similarity 0.81)
• Marxism failed to comprehend nationalism, consciousness, racism, and Black history (similarity 0.81)
• Marxist orthodoxy denied American Blacks nation status. (similarity 0.80)
• Lenin substituted the party for the rise of class consciousness (similarity 0.80)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362
• Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism #expands (0.70)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #expands (0.65) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363
• Nationalism subverted socialism and overtook capitalist development worldwide #corroborates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 116