Socialism originated as an alternative bourgeois strategy against feudal inequality

Evidence

Finally, in this living feudal order, socialism was born as an alternative bourgeois strategy to combat social inequality. Directly challenging Marx himself, Robinson declares: “Socialist critiques of society were attempts to further the bourgeois revolutions against feudalism.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 18

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• QUESTION: This is the sharpest provocation in the paragraph — worth chasing how Robinson substantiates it in later chapters.