Sole reliance on the working class distinguished the liberal antifascist position from Marxism

Evidence

The dismissal of culture, that is, a transmitted historical consciousness, as an aspect of class consciousness, did not equip the Marxian movement for the political forces that would not only erupt in Europe and the Third World but within the movement itself. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Wright rejected Marxism’s presumption of the working class’s inherent progressiveness; Working-class movements accommodated capitalism while theory idealized a revolutionary proletariat; Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363 (+1 more)

Related

• The 1930s lacked a militant radical working-class culture despite socialist expectation (similarity 0.88)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces (similarity 0.87)
• Working-class consciousness requires spiritual and cultural self-reproduction that Marxian theory overlooked (similarity 0.85)
• Marxist class categories froze into a fixed historical image of class (similarity 0.84)
• Comintern orthodoxy narrowed revolutionary class to industrial workers while dismissing colonial masses (similarity 0.84)
• Wright held that Marxism expressed petit bourgeois class grievances (similarity 0.83)
• Western Marxism failed as a total theory of liberation (similarity 0.83)
• Working-class movements accommodated capitalism while theory idealized a revolutionary proletariat (similarity 0.83)
• Lenin substituted the party for the rise of class consciousness (similarity 0.82)
• Anglo-Marxists neglected the state while fixating on ideology within the superstructures (similarity 0.81)
• Wright’s open questions exposed Marxism’s unexamined assumptions about race and class (similarity 0.81)
• Communist leadership ignored the psychological fragmentation truncating workers’ historical role (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism failed to strip social life of historical consciousness embedded in culture (similarity 0.80)
• Wright held Black workers more alienated than white working classes (similarity 0.80)
• Wright came to see Marxism as petit bourgeois ideology, not proletarian theory (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Wright rejected Marxism’s presumption of the working class’s inherent progressiveness #contradicts (0.75)
• Working-class movements accommodated capitalism while theory idealized a revolutionary proletariat #qualifies (0.72)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #expands (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363
• Wright saw Marxism as an internal critique trapped in bourgeois epistemological terms #expands (0.70)