The Bolshevik revolution supplied symbols for West Indian postwar socialism

Evidence

Contact with Europe during the first World War gave West Indian radicals a firsthand opportunity to learn from Europe and so the postwar period was increasingly “Socialist” in the way that West Indians understood the term. Cipriani wore a red button on his lapel and many of his followers wore red shirts in imitation of the “Reds” of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1189

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships