Slavery’s rationalizing ideology made liberal democracy a mere myth

Evidence

The ideology necessary to rationalize slavery disallowed the further development of liberal democracy except as a myth. But Du Bois understood that the relationship between slavery and democracy was not a question of the clash of ideas. His approach to history was similar in this respect to that which Marx and Engels had presented in The German Ideology: This conception of history… — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 951

Categorization

• XREF: Directly links Du Bois’s historical method to Marx and Engels’s The German Ideology — a connective point between Black radical and Marxist traditions that the reader’s arc needs.