Political economy blinded Marx and Engels to nationalist ideological dynamics

Evidence

More important, however, is the effect that political economy, the central analytical tool of their materialist conception of history, had on their ability to conceptualize correctly the ideological character of industrial social movements. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 341

Categorization

• XREF: Core to the reader’s stated goal: Robinson is isolating a blindness in the European socialist tradition that helps explain why it could not comprehend the Black radical tradition.