Racism and mobility myths prevented white workers from revolutionary consciousness

Evidence

The class struggle had been distorted and a proletarian revolutionary consciousness among nineteenth-century American workers had been effectively interdicted by the ideological power of racism and the seductiveness of the bourgeois myth of social mobility. It was the slaves (in truth an enslaved peasantry) and other agrarian workers who had mounted the attack on capitalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1438

Categorization

• XREF: This builds on the book’s core thesis about the Black radical tradition; connects to Wilmore, James, and Fanon’s earlier critiques of the European proletariat as revolutionary subject. — connects to: Housing scarcity and residential transition drove working-class whites into organized racism — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 104