Party intellectuals faced suspicion as petit-bourgeois Trotskyists

Evidence

This meant that Wright was to be subjected to the diffidence shown to intellectuals, but, more significantly among his Black comrades, that he was also to be held in suspicion for “petit-bourgeois tendencies”—that is, selfish interests—and worse: Trotskyism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1357

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The LDH attracted leftists attached to bourgeois freedoms over party line; The petit bourgeois intelligentsia dominated Marxist theory and the Bolshevik revolution; Black petit-bourgeois intellectuals embraced Marxism when racism betrayed their bourgeois universals — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1324 (+4 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The LDH attracted leftists attached to bourgeois freedoms over party line; The petit bourgeois intelligentsia dominated Marxist theory and the Bolshevik revolution; Black petit-bourgeois intellectuals embraced Marxism when racism betrayed their bourgeois universals — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1324 (+4 more)