Robinson’s Black radical theory grew directly from 1960s Bay Area radical movements.

Evidence

This rightward drift did not go unchallenged, however. Black Marxism appeared during a crucial period of political organizing, just a few years after the founding of the National Black United Front (NBUF) and the National Black Independent Political Party (NBIPP). Black nationalism was on the rise in this period, following a decade in which an increasing number of Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism as alternatives to liberal integrationism and “race first” capitalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 28 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism in the 1970s — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 28; Silicon Valley hacker culture originated in 1970s Bay Area hobbyist clubs — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 68

Related

• Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism in the 1970s (similarity 0.87)
• Black radical scholarship grew directly out of activist movements (similarity 0.83)
• The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a global wave of revolution (similarity 0.82)
• Robinson traces Black radical thought to a shared African epistemology. (similarity 0.81)
• Black radicals emerged by turning to their own historical tradition (similarity 0.80)
• Black radicals could hold both staunch anti-communism and appreciation for British political leveling. (similarity 0.79)
• The Black radical movement outweighed Marxism’s influence even on its most Westernized intellectuals (similarity 0.79)
• Black radical theory was nurtured in the diaspora, not in Africa itself. (similarity 0.79)
• Scholarship on Black radicalism proliferated in the 1990s without citing Robinson. (similarity 0.79)
• The spectacle of interwar revolutions made observers locate Black radicalism’s origins there. (similarity 0.78)
• Black revolutionary theory emerged independently from European radical movements (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism in the 1970s #responds-to (0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 28