Harold Cruse blamed Wright’s Marxist framework for obscuring his Black nationalism

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Still there are some who have argued that Wright fulfilled little of his promise. Harold Cruse, among them, has written that Wright “was so ideologically blinded by the smog of Jewish-Marxist nationalism that he was unable to see his own clearly”; that Wright had not understood “that the classics of Marx and Engels were written not for the proletariat but for the intelligentsia,” and, finally, that “He could not gather into himself all the ingredients of nationalism; to create values and mould concepts by which his race was to ‘struggle, live and die.’” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1338

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• XREF: connects to: Fellow Black writers condemned Wright’s Paris exile as damaging his literary freedom. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 882