Marx and Engels’ German nationalism skewed their judgment of Slavic liberation movements.

Evidence

Their own nationalism whether “unconscious or subconscious,” as Davis is forced to concede, or otherwise, made them generally unsympathetic to the national liberation movements of peoples (e.g., the Russians and other Slavs) that historically threatened what Marx and Engels believed to be the national interests of the German people. An opposition to movements such as these could be rationalized by their failure to accord with the practical requirements of a viable political economy. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 358

Categorization

• XREF: Challenges the canonized view of Marx-Engels as impartial scientific socialists; undermines Marxist authority for the Black radical tradition’s theoretical grounding.