The American radical movement failed to develop critical political theory

Evidence

What, precisely, the Bigger Thomases would kill for, Wright could not answer. He had stated his thesis and it was now left to the “future drift of events” to make that determination, that is, the capacity of the American radical movement to develop a critical political theory. This, of course, was not to be the case. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1381

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Increasing theoretical radicalism coincided with growing political pessimism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 772; The Black radical tradition challenged Western radicalism’s assumptions about capitalism and ideology; Marxist theory could not theorize nationalism and so evaded it — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 33
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Increasing theoretical radicalism coincided with growing political pessimism — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 772; The Black radical tradition challenged Western radicalism’s assumptions about capitalism and ideology; Marxist theory could not theorize nationalism and so evaded it — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 33

Broader Connections

• Increasing theoretical radicalism coincided with growing political pessimism #complicates (0.72) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 772