Revolutionary leadership must flow upward from class awareness, not downward.
Evidence
Groups moved to the logic of immediate self-interest and to historical paradox. Consciousness, when it did develop, had come later in the process of the events. The revolution had caused the formation of revolutionary consciousness and had not been caused by it. The revolution was spontaneous. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126; A returning national elite can compel an enforced awakening in its people
Related
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- Ideology disrupts predicted historical processes and enables revolutions (similarity 0.82)
- Real revolution is an inner process preceding any outward violence (similarity 0.82)
- A returning national elite can compel an enforced awakening in its people (similarity 0.81)
- Black revolutionary consciousness derives from the whole historical experience of Black people. (similarity 0.80)
- Revolutionary consciousness arises from cultural idiom, not from productive relations (similarity 0.79)
- Revolutionary leadership comes disproportionately from those privileged by the system they attack (similarity 0.79)
- Lenin replaced class consciousness with the vanguard party in revolutionary theory (similarity 0.79)
- Black revolutionary consciousness formed independently of bourgeois thought and ideology (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Revolution produces revolutionary consciousness, not the reverse
#corroborates(0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1126 - A returning national elite can compel an enforced awakening in its people
#contradicts(0.80)