European surrealists adopted anticolonial and anti-Western positions that attracted Black radicals

Evidence

Surrealists explicitly called for the overthrow of bourgeois culture, identified with anticolonial movements in Africa and Asia, and turned to non-European cultures as a source of ideas and inspiration in their critique of Western civilization. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 40

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing knowledge of how Western intellectual currents nonetheless contained anti-Western elements — parallels the Milgrom material showing institutions arising within existing structures.