Socialist meaning must be won through struggle

Evidence

It takes as a first premise that for a people to survive in struggle it must be on its own terms: the collective wisdom which is a synthesis of culture and the experience of that struggle. The shared past is precious, not for itself, but because it is the basis of consciousness, of knowing, of being. It cannot be traded in exchange for expedient alliances or traduced by convenient abstractions or dogma. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 106 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalism requires continuous re-education of the popular classes through cultural struggle; A people’s survival in struggle depends on its own cultural terms, not borrowed abstractions — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 106; Terms like peace and democracy are contested concepts in struggles — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 377 (+1 more)

Related

• Culture acquires class meaning only through present political struggle (similarity 0.86)
• A people’s survival in struggle depends on its own cultural terms, not borrowed abstractions (similarity 0.81)
• Black survival in struggle requires self-defined culture and consciousness, not imported theory (similarity 0.81)
• Representation itself can be a site of life and death in struggles like AIDS (similarity 0.80)
• No cultural form permanently expresses any class until struggle gives it that accent (similarity 0.78)
• Peoples enter revolution through their own cultural terms, not imported ideology (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism requires continuous re-education of the popular classes through cultural struggle #corroborates (0.62)
• A people’s survival in struggle depends on its own cultural terms, not borrowed abstractions #expands (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 106