Radical Western ideologies recruited educated non-white elites by assuaging inferiority

Evidence

[O]ne minority section of the white society in or under which he lives will offer the educated elite of Asia and Africa or black America an interpretation of the world which impels to action, thereby assuaging his feelings of inferiority. Nine times out of ten it can be easily pointed out that the ideology offered has no relation to the plight of the educated black, brown, or yellow elite But that ideology does solve something… . [I]t enabled the Negro or Asian or African to meet revolutionary fragments of the hostile race on a plane of equality. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1411

Categorization

• SEED: Angles for an essay on how colonial and Black intellectuals were recruited into Western revolutionary ideologies as a means of psychological equality with whites, and what that meant for the Black radical tradition’s own theoretical independence.
• XREF: connects to: Northern-educated Southern leaders internalize the view that their own cultures are inferior — Rebecca A. Martusewicz, Jeff Edmundson, and John Lupinacci, EcoJustice Education: Toward Diverse,…, 1380; Supremacist ideology taints even educated, progressive Sinhalese elites — Neil DeVotta, Sinhalese Buddhist Nationalist…, 189