Even a radical’s greatest work can inadvertently endorse European-centered history.

Evidence

But, though James came to recognize it as his most extraordinary work, it did contain certain limitations. The most obvious problem stemmed from James’s fascination for Hegel’s mode of argumentation: the distillation of history into rich concentrates used solely for the grounding of abstract discourse. It was also the case that this history was exclusively European—an inadvertent but natural substantiation of Hegel’s own assertion of where history could occur. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1322

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: Connects to the book’s broader thesis that the Black radical tradition emerged from experiences Hegel’s history excluded.

Related

• Racialism subverted radical theories by blinding them to an active historical subject (similarity 0.81)
• The Black movement’s revival turned James back toward his African roots (similarity 0.81)
• European Marxism was embedded in Eurocentric socialism from its birth (similarity 0.81)
• Stage-theory historiography erased long-standing precedents of Black radicalism. (similarity 0.81)
• Marxism’s historical materialism reflects only European bourgeois experience, not universal history. (similarity 0.80)
• Black radicals emerged by turning to their own historical tradition (similarity 0.80)
• Black radical theory was nurtured in the diaspora, not in Africa itself. (similarity 0.80)
• Marx’s own theory is historically conditioned and will be negated (similarity 0.80)
• The Black radical movement outweighed Marxism’s influence even on its most Westernized intellectuals (similarity 0.80)
• Racist historiography distorted and suppressed the record of Black rebelliousness. (similarity 0.80)
• Black radicalism’s unconsciousness of itself as tradition has costs (similarity 0.80)
• The Black radical tradition rejects capitalism’s power to erase historical consciousness in culture (similarity 0.79)
• The radical Black intelligentsia had to pursue liberation without European Left support. (similarity 0.79)
• Black rebelliousness to slavery was systematically suppressed by Eurocentric historiography. (similarity 0.79)
• Ethiopia’s 1936 occupation pushed James beyond European radical doctrine toward Black-radical theory. (similarity 0.79)