Racialism infected even radical intelligentsias who then denied its influence

Evidence

Nevertheless, it insinuated itself into their thought and their theories. And thus, in the quest for a radical social force, an active historical subject, it compelled certain blindnesses, bemusements that in turn systematically subverted their analytical constructions and their revolutionary project. But this is still to be shown. To that end we will now turn to the history of the English working classes. Since these workers were one of the centerpieces for the development by radical intelligentsias of the notion of the proletariat as a revolutionary class, an inquiry into the effects of racialism on their consciousness forms the next step in the demonstration of the limits of European radicalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 213

Categorization

• QUESTION: How did racialism enter radical theory while being denied by its authors — worth tracing through the English working-class chapters that follow.
• XREF: connects to: Even anti-racist Orientalists held fixed cultural essences for the racialized