The gulf between class struggle and anti-imperialist struggle began to close

Evidence

In the political field, nationalism is the fact against which the Marxist theory breaks itself. Here is a force which has proved definitely stronger in the modern world than the class struggle which for orthodox Marxists makes the essence of history. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Venezuelan rebellions became class wars uniting people of mixed ancestry.; Comintern orthodoxy narrowed revolutionary class to industrial workers while dismissing colonial masses; The revolution escalated from colonial grievance to racial battle to antislavery war (+4 more)

Related

• Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world (similarity 0.86)
• Comintern orthodoxy narrowed revolutionary class to industrial workers while dismissing colonial masses (similarity 0.85)
• Culture acquires class meaning only through present political struggle (similarity 0.85)
• An international class must nationalise itself to lead nationally-rooted social strata (similarity 0.83)
• Supranationalist class identity among English workers retreated before nationalism (similarity 0.82)
• Haitian slaves surpassed contemporary European national struggles in demonstrated political capacity (similarity 0.81)
• Imperialism is the primary object of socialist resistance (similarity 0.81)
• Anti-imperialist peasant wars, not Western proletariats, drove twentieth-century revolutions. (similarity 0.80)
• English nationalism displaced class solidarity after Chartism’s defeat. (similarity 0.80)
• The Revolution’s class struggles were reinterpreted as race history (similarity 0.80)
• Venezuelan rebellions became class wars uniting people of mixed ancestry. (similarity 0.79)
• Marxism’s economism forced the conclusion that nationalism was a backward, diversionary ideology. (similarity 0.79)
• Ethnic nationalism within the party defeated Americanizing Marxism (similarity 0.79)
• Germany and England objectified class struggle through different institutional routes (similarity 0.79)
• Socialist revolutions required sidelining the national bourgeoisie during anti-colonial struggle (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Comintern orthodoxy narrowed revolutionary class to industrial workers while dismissing colonial masses #complicates (0.80)
• Imperialism matured the very social forces that later resisted it #corroborates (0.40)
• Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world #contradicts (0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362
• Imperialism itself generated the resistance and revolution that opposed it #corroborates (0.35)
• The revolution escalated from colonial grievance to racial battle to antislavery war #exemplifies (0.30)