Liberation requires retaining critical judgment and cultural heritage, not party surrender

Evidence

From his experience in the American Communist Party, and from his reading of Marx, Wright had come to the conclusion that no people’s liberation is the result of their abject surrender of critical judgment. Certainly it was not the prerogative of Black intellectuals to surrender the cultural heritage of their people: the emergent revolutionary consciousness of Black nationalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1423

Categorization

• XREF: Defines what Black radicalism preserved that orthodox class theory dropped - the cultural-racial consciousness. — connects to: Empowering victim groups requires honoring resilience and heritage, not reducing identity to victimhood. — Nurit Shnabel and Johannes Ullrich, Identity Needs in Intergroup Relations:…, 154