Surrealism is a revolutionary movement against imaginative slavery

Evidence

Surrealism is the exaltation of freedom, revolt, imagination and love… . [It] is above all a revolutionary movement. Its basic aim is to lessen and eventually to completely resolve the contradiction between everyday life and our wildest dreams… . Beginning with the abolition of imaginative slavery, it advances to the creation of a free society in which everyone will be a poet—a society in which everyone will be able to develop his or her potentialities fully and freely. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 39

Categorization

• DEFINE: Provides a working definition of surrealism as political project, useful for understanding why it appealed to Black radicals.
• XREF: connects to: Surrealism is a revolutionary movement resolving the contradiction between daily life and dreams.; Surrealism served colonized writers as a weapon against colonial language — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 287; European surrealists allied openly with anticolonial revolution (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Surrealism is a revolutionary movement resolving the contradiction between daily life and dreams.; Surrealism served colonized writers as a weapon against colonial language — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 287; European surrealists allied openly with anticolonial revolution (+5 more)