The Ethiopian War exposed colonialism’s reality and promised African revolutionary counterparts to Leninism

Evidence

It brought home to many black people the reality of colonialism, and exposed its true nature. They could then see that the stories of Lenin and Trotsky, or Sun Yatsen, must have their African counterparts… . It was clear that imperialism was a force to be reckoned with because here it was attacking the black man’s last citadel. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1264

Categorization

• XREF: Illuminates the moment Black subjects perceived themselves as revolutionary agents parallel to Russian and Chinese colonized peoples.