Marxism’s theoretical elegance required discarding race, gender, and culture.

Evidence

Driven, however, by the need to achieve the scientific elegance and interpretive economy demanded by theory, Marx consigned race, gender, culture, and history to the dustbin. Fully aware of the constant place women and children held in the workforce, Marx still deemed them so unimportant as a proportion of wage labor that he tossed them, with slave labor and peasants, into the imagined abyss signified by precapitalist, noncapitalist, and primitive accumulation. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 79

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: This is the canonical ‘Marxism’s blind spot’ critique that grounds the Black radical tradition; connects to the reader’s core question about what the tradition corrects.

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