The Black radical movement’s dialectical matrix was capitalist slavery and imperialism

Evidence

This brings us finally to the character, or more accurately to the ideological, philosophical, and epistemological natures of the Black movement whose dialectical matrix we believe was capitalist slavery and imperialism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 830

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Establishes the foundational premise of what the Black radical tradition is grounded in.