Mainstream Marxists celebrated Russian peasant revolution while ignoring Black American rebellion
Evidence
Revolution is discussed, but it is the successful revolution of white folk and not the unsuccessful revolution of black soldiers in Texas. You do not stop to consider whether the Russian peasant had any more to endure than the black soldiers of the 24th Infantry. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1111
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
Related
- Du Bois in 1917 charged American socialists with ignoring Black American revolt (similarity 0.86)
- Only peasant-based revolutions succeeded while industrial workers failed to revolt (similarity 0.85)
- Successful revolutions of the era happened in peasant societies, not industrialized ones (similarity 0.84)
- Du Bois linked Russian peasant revolution to American Black struggle without orthodox Marxism (similarity 0.83)
- Du Bois read the American Civil War as a peasant-based revolution. (similarity 0.82)
- Revolutionary socialism triumphed only in predominantly peasant societies (similarity 0.81)
- Early socialist tradition treated actual worker and slave rebellions as background noise. (similarity 0.80)
- Wright saw the Black revolutionary movement as poised to challenge Western civilization’s very foundations. (similarity 0.80)
- Civil War general strike of Black and white workers prefigured the Russian Revolution pattern (similarity 0.80)
- Marx’s novelty lay in siding with the proletariat, not in analyzing exploitation (similarity 0.80)
- Du Bois first reassessed Marxian revolution theory within American Marxism (similarity 0.80)
- Lenin viewed American Blacks as the vanguard of revolution in the United States (similarity 0.80)
- Lenin and Trotsky recognized peasant class struggle and its revolutionary potential (similarity 0.80)
- Wright held that Marxism expressed petit bourgeois class grievances (similarity 0.79)
- Contemporary slaves understood Haiti’s revolution better than later historians would. (similarity 0.79)