Ideology disrupts predicted historical processes and enables revolutions

Evidence

Groups moved to the logic of immediate self-interest and to historical paradox. Consciousness, when it did develop, had come later in the process of the events. The revolution had caused the formation of revolutionary consciousness and had not been caused by it. The revolution was spontaneous. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberal democratic ideology internally generates the contradictions that let alternatives through; Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it; Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126 (+12 more)

Related

• Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse (similarity 0.89)
• Revolutionary consciousness arises from cultural idiom, not from productive relations (similarity 0.89)
• Revolutionary outcomes can occur without revolutionary situations via five pathways (similarity 0.87)
• Real revolution is an inner process preceding any outward violence (similarity 0.86)
• Haitians’ decade of revolution had transformed their ideas beyond reenslavability (similarity 0.86)
• Unexpected ideology intrudes to derail Marxism’s predicted historical inevitability (similarity 0.84)
• Stressing objective economic forces over revolutionary praxis yields quietistic politics (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial revolution disproved that bourgeois ideas catalyze revolutionary consciousness (similarity 0.83)
• Revolutionary leadership must flow upward from class awareness, not downward. (similarity 0.82)
• Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology (similarity 0.81)
• Ideological consciousness arises from phenomenal exchange relations, not directly from production. (similarity 0.81)
• Black revolutionary consciousness derives from the whole historical experience of Black people. (similarity 0.80)
• Ideas can only be dissolved by overturning material social relations, not criticism. (similarity 0.80)
• Peoples enter revolution through their own cultural terms, not imported ideology (similarity 0.79)
• Historical elements react back on the economic causes that produced them (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it #corroborates (0.70)
• Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse #contradicts (0.65) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126