Marxism proved a gateway that three thinkers passed through to Black radicalism

Evidence

In time, events and experience drew them toward Black radicalism and the discovery of a collective Black resistance inspired by an enduring cultural complex of historical apprehension. In these concluding chapters I have attempted to demonstrate how and why this was so. Taken together, the efforts of Du Bois, James, and Wright consisted of a first step toward the creation of an intellectual legacy that would complement the historical force of Black struggle. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 120

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• The Black radical movement outweighed Marxism’s influence even on its most Westernized intellectuals (similarity 0.88)
• Black radicals rejected Marxism for its Eurocentric blindness to racialism’s role in capitalism (similarity 0.87)
• Black intellectuals’ nurture as Blacks outweighed Marxism in forging radical consciousness. (similarity 0.86)
• Black radicals emerged by turning to their own historical tradition (similarity 0.86)
• Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race (similarity 0.85)
• Marxism’s explanatory power made it irresistible to Black radical intellectuals (similarity 0.85)
• Black radicals rejected doctrinaire Marxism that subordinated Black struggle (similarity 0.85)
• Black radical theory was nurtured in the diaspora, not in Africa itself. (similarity 0.84)
• Western Marxists’ Eurocentric racial metaphysics blinded them to Third World revolutionary forces (similarity 0.84)
• Peoples enter revolution through their own cultural terms, not imported ideology (similarity 0.84)
• Black radicalism’s earliest impulse was preservation of consciousness, not revolutionary transformation (similarity 0.84)
• Black radical theory was discovered in mass movements, not invented (similarity 0.83)
• Black intellectuals split on Stalinism but Marxism alone still exposed capitalism’s systemic doom. (similarity 0.83)
• Communists failed to reach Black workers on their own terms (similarity 0.83)
• The Black radical tradition challenges Western radicalism’s claims about capitalism and the vanguard intelligentsia. (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race #expands (0.70)
• Black radicals rejected doctrinaire Marxism that subordinated Black struggle #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 868
• Marxism’s universalism attracted Black radicals yet proved insufficiently global #expands (0.60)
• Renegade radical thinkers from the tradition sought to recuperate radical theory from Marxism’s blunders #expands (0.50)