Notes on Dialectics rescued Marxism when Lenin’s legacy threatened its relevance

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Though its author had not hesitated to assume the role of headmaster to Western Marxists, his grounds were substantial: the questions then being raised in the Marxist movement were so misconceived as inevitably to suggest abolition of the tradition itself. He had in many ways succeeded in anchoring Marx’s thought in the twentieth century when to many it seemed that Lenin had accomplished the very opposite: its annihilation as a reference. He had shown a new direction when it seemed all such possibilities were at an end. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1322