Historical elements react back on the economic causes that produced them
Evidence
[O]nce an historic element has been brought into the world by other, ultimately economic causes, it reacts, can react on its environment and even on the causes that have given rise to it. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 378
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Engels’s own acknowledgment of ideological autonomy — key concession Robinson leans on throughout.
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- Marx’s historical method centers capitalism as the primary lens by 1847. (similarity 0.81)
- Engels rejected the view that the economic factor is the sole determinant of history. (similarity 0.80)
- Marx’s own theory is historically conditioned and will be negated (similarity 0.80)
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- Repression of Black labor directly catalyzed Black historical writing after 1877. (similarity 0.79)
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- Black rebelliousness to slavery was systematically suppressed by Eurocentric historiography. (similarity 0.79)
- Marxism’s explanatory power made it irresistible to Black radical intellectuals (similarity 0.79)
- Uneven capitalist development replaced feudal instruments and demanded new historical agents (similarity 0.79)
- Stressing objective economic forces over revolutionary praxis yields quietistic politics (similarity 0.78)
- Black historical being exceeds what historical materialism can capture (similarity 0.78)
- Black radicals emerged by turning to their own historical tradition (similarity 0.78)