Negritude’s Marxists poets reveal the strain of joining two ideologies.

Evidence

Let us briefly take up the last question. When we consider the lives and works of Black radical intellectuals such as Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Wifredo Lam, Etienne Léro, Jayne Cortez, Simone and Pierre Yoyotte, René Dépestre, René Ménil, and even Richard Wright, I think it could be argued that surrealism served as a bridge between Marxism and the Black Radical Tradition. All of these thinkers were either active in the surrealist movement or expressed an interest in surrealism. A revolutionary movement whose official origins can be traced to post–World War I Paris, surrealism drew on Marx and Freud while remaining critical of Marxism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 38 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them; Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology; Marxism proved a gateway that three thinkers passed through to Black radicalism (+3 more)

Related

• Surrealism bridged Marxism and the Black Radical Tradition. (similarity 0.88)
• European surrealists allied openly with anticolonial revolution (similarity 0.84)
• Surrealism confirmed rather than revealed Césaire’s African consciousness (similarity 0.82)
• European surrealists adopted anticolonial and anti-Western positions that attracted Black radicals (similarity 0.80)
• Marx’s own theory is historically conditioned and will be negated (similarity 0.80)
• Black intellectuals embraced surrealism as a return to African culture rather than European innovation (similarity 0.79)
• Surrealists allied with anticolonial movements and condemned Western civilization outright (similarity 0.79)
• Black radicalism had indigenous revolutionary elements before surrealism appeared (similarity 0.79)
• Marxism proved a gateway that three thinkers passed through to Black radicalism (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology #contradicts (0.55)
• Surrealism bridged Marxism and the Black Radical Tradition. #corroborates (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 38
• Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them #corroborates (0.45)
• Marxism proved a gateway that three thinkers passed through to Black radicalism #corroborates (0.40)
• Marxism attracted Black intellectuals because it explained global capitalist disorder coherently #contradicts (0.35)
• European Marxists mistook their localized structures for universal historical truths #contradicts (0.30) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 114