Even radical European socialist traditions absorbed American slavery’s racism

Evidence

What was true for the mainstream of the American labor movement was also a factor in the radical traditions in the country. Though mid-nineteenth-century socialism had been largely transferred from areas of Europe where antipathies toward Blacks were inconsequential, its adherents, too, had not been capable, generally, of resisting the corrosive influences of slavery. This had been the case for both Marxist and non-Marxist socialists. The precedents established during this period would be of no substantial help to twentieth-century socialists whether their programs directly or indirectly addressed themselves to “the Negro Problem.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 947

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what exactly were the ‘precedents established during this period’ that failed twentieth-century socialists on the Negro Problem? Robinson gestures here without spelling out the cases.

Related

• Nineteenth-century American socialists absorbed slavery’s racism despite European origins (similarity 0.93)
• Racialism permeated even the rebellious proletariat and radical intelligentsia (similarity 0.85)
• European Marxism was embedded in Eurocentric socialism from its birth (similarity 0.84)
• Mass Black slavery overturned earlier casual Iberian racial structures (similarity 0.84)
• Black radicals rejected Marxism for its Eurocentric blindness to racialism’s role in capitalism (similarity 0.83)
• Slavery’s ideological scaffolding was necessary for its persistence and expansion. (similarity 0.83)
• Racism scholarship fails by presuming only European history is determinative. (similarity 0.83)
• Early Black Marxists blamed Marxist parties’ failure on refusing to engage Black realities (similarity 0.83)
• Black theorists of the twentieth century were formed by the phenomenology of slavery (similarity 0.82)
• Ethnicity as organizing principle doomed early American socialist unity. (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism integrated Blacks into production while shielding them from bourgeois ideology (similarity 0.82)
• Enslaved Africans carried intact cultural systems, not deculturated minds, into slavery (similarity 0.82)
• Racialism is an enduring principle of European civilization, not a modern invention (similarity 0.82)
• Racism and mobility myths prevented white workers from revolutionary consciousness (similarity 0.82)
• American socialists abandoned Black workers after 1901 and never reaffirmed their Negro resolution (similarity 0.82)