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The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the original source of genius

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Sep 20, 20261 min read

The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the original source of genius

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But always we must keep in mind that their brilliance was also derivative. The truer genius was in the midst of the people of whom they wrote. There the struggle was more than words or ideas but life itself. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 869

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The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the original source of genius
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Black anti-imperialist intellectuals centered their struggle in the British metropole
Black masses organized openly while intelligentsia pursued supplication
The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the true source of the tradition.
Cedric J. Robinson — Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black Radical Tradition
Cedric J. Robinson — Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black Radical Tradition

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The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the original source of genius

The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the original source of genius

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