Garvey’s race-first doctrine concealed a persistent class component

Evidence

Much of Garvey’s hold on the masses was due to ideas not very different from some espoused by communists. Despite his firm espousal of the race-first principle, for example, there was a persistent class component to Garvey’s thinking. As against the white race, he saw the need for intraracial solidarity but within the race he demonstrated quite clearly that he identified with the oppressed masses against those with pretensions to more exalted status. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2234

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Enemy-Making Machine: Ours, True, and the Identity That Defends Both”