Racialism permeated even the rebellious proletariat and radical intelligentsia

Evidence

As an enduring principle of European social order, the effects of racialism were bound to appear in the social expression of every strata of every European society no matter the structures upon which they were formed. None was immune. And as we shall observe in the next two chapters, this proved to be true for the rebellious proletariat as well as the radical intelligentsias. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 213

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that racialism infected even anti-capitalist radicals sets up the book’s central argument that the Black radical tradition needed to break from European radicalism — a thesis foreshadowed here.