European Marxism was embedded in Eurocentric socialism from its birth

Evidence

To comprehend this “haunting” of radical European thought, and its Eurocentrism, it becomes appropriate to review the socialist tradition from which Marx and Engels emerged and that had for its historical setting the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth century. Here we will discover the groundings of the pattern that thrust European Marxism into an era for which it was not prepared: the modern world. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 278

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: In Europe Marxism was an unavoidable philosophical presence, unlike in America — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 4817; Global Marxism’s failures stem from imposing Marx’s Eurocentric scenario worldwide. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1148; Marxist historiography must repeatedly acknowledge its European philosophical origins — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1788