The Black radical tradition abandons Western ideologies for its own independent authority.

Evidence

The resoluteness of the Black radical tradition advances as each generation assembles the data of its experience to an ideology of liberation. The experimentation with Western political inventories of change, specifically nationalism and class struggle, is coming to a close. Black radicalism is transcending those traditions in order to adhere to its own authority. It will arrive as points of resistance here, rebellion there, and mass revolutionary movements still elsewhere. But each instance will be formed by the Black radical tradition in an awareness of the others and the consciousness that there remains nothing to which it may return. Molded by a long and brutal experience and rooted in a specifically African development, the tradition will provide for no compromise between liberation and annihilation. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1445

Categorization

• DEFINE: States the tradition’s endpoint: it outgrows nationalism and class struggle, the two Western ‘inventories of change’.