The late 1970s and early 1980s saw a global wave of revolution

Evidence

This rightward drift did not go unchallenged, however. Black Marxism appeared during a crucial period of political organizing, just a few years after the founding of the National Black United Front (NBUF) and the National Black Independent Political Party (NBIPP). Black nationalism was on the rise in this period, following a decade in which an increasing number of Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism as alternatives to liberal integrationism and “race first” capitalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 28 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism in the 1970s — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 28; Political closure in the West masked persisting revolutionary energies globally — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 232; The Iranian and Afghan revolutions of 1978-79 decisively ended the Left’s revolutionary decades — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 787 (+3 more)

Related

• Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism in the 1970s (similarity 0.89)
• Robinson’s Black radical theory grew directly from 1960s Bay Area radical movements. (similarity 0.82)
• The spectacle of interwar revolutions made observers locate Black radicalism’s origins there. (similarity 0.81)
• Global anti-capitalist revolution retreated by the mid-1970s (similarity 0.80)
• World War One’s revolutions anchored Black radical thought to the twentieth century. (similarity 0.80)
• A wave of Black radical books appeared in the late 1970s and early 1980s (similarity 0.80)
• Third World masses revive the revolutionary role the industrial proletariat lost (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Black radicals turned to Marxism-Leninism and Maoism in the 1970s #exemplifies (0.35) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 28