Europe’s extraction from Africa accelerated Western civilization’s self-destruction and fragmenting

Evidence

For the West, the appropriation of the means and forces of African reproduction have had unintended and unacceptable significance. The psychic, intellectual, and cultural consequences of Europe’s intrusion into African history have served to accelerate the formulation of the mechanisms of self-destruction inherent in Western civilization, exacerbating its native racisms, compelling further its imperatives for power and totalitarian force, while subverting the possibilities of the rationalization of its states, its diverse cultural particularities, and its classes. Everywhere one turns or cares to look, the signs of a collapsing world are evident; at the center, at its extremities, the systems of Western power are fragmenting. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 392

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• XREF: Directly evokes the Achebe epigraph ‘Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold’ — the book quotes it verbatim, and Things Fall Apart is in the library.