The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the true source of the tradition.

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• Black masses organized openly while intelligentsia pursued supplication (similarity 0.91)
• Pre-war scholarship saw Black movements as scattershot local episodes, not one coherent tradition (similarity 0.88)
• Historical materialism fails to capture the full historical being of Black peoples. (similarity 0.87)
• The Black masses, not the intelligentsia, were the original source of genius (similarity 0.86)
• Black anti-imperialist intellectuals centered their struggle in the British metropole (similarity 0.85)
• Historical materialism fails to capture Black historical being as more than opposition to capital (similarity 0.85)
• Early Black historiography challenged exclusion while accepting dominant values (similarity 0.84)
• Wright held that Black US development was capital’s most total contradiction (similarity 0.84)
• Secularism becomes the guarantor of liberty in Kureishi’s The Black Album (similarity 0.83)
• Black petit bourgeois ideology rested on fragile capitalist indulgence. (similarity 0.83)
• Ideologues claiming the key to reality must adapt to every new event (similarity 0.83)
• Lenin viewed American Blacks as the vanguard of revolution in the United States (similarity 0.83)
• Hegemony must be won before power is seized, not merely imposed by force after (similarity 0.82)
• Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.82)
• Specific meaning arises only from an arbitrary contingent break (similarity 0.82)