The Black radical tradition offers one part of the solution to Western civilization’s crisis.

Evidence

It is not the province of one people to be the solution or the problem. But a civilization maddened by its own perverse assumptions and contradictions is loose in the world. A Black radical tradition formed in opposition to that civilization and conscious of itself is one part of the solution. Whether the other oppositions generated from within Western society and without will mature remains problematical. But for now we must be as one. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1446

Categorization

• XREF: This closing definition of the tradition’s contemporary function recaps the reader’s core concern with the tradition’s height and downfall in the late-capitalist era.