Marxism’s historical materialism reflects only European bourgeois experience, not universal history.

Evidence

Marx’s conceit was to presume that the theory of historical materialism explained history; but, at worst, it merely rearranged history. And at its best (for it must be acknowledged that there are some precious insights in Marxism), historical materialism still only encapsulated an analytical procedure which resonated with bourgeois Europe, merely one fraction of the world economy. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 81

Categorization

• XREF: This launches the core thesis of the book — that Marxism is a Eurocentric construction inadequate to non-Western histories. Connects to the whole Black radical critique of Marxism tradition the reader is tracing.