The numerically marginal Communist cadre sought to commandeer Garvey’s mass movement.
Evidence
In anticipation of the UNIA’S First International Convention, Briggs offered Garvey a proposition—that Garvey (with his international mass movement, perhaps millions strong) should enter into a program of joint action with the ABB (an obscure organization of a thousand or two) for African liberation… . Briggs then took the opportunity provided by Garvey’s assembled multitude to do a little recruiting for himself and passed around copies of the ABB program. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1025
Categorization
- SHARE: The stark asymmetry — a mass movement of millions solicited by recruits numbering a thousand or two, who then recruited within the crowd — is a detail a friend into Black-Marxist history would enjoy.
- XREF: connects to: Communist attempts to capture Garvey’s convention failed and soured relations further.; Black communists saw allies in the party while Garvey favored Moscow — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1027
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Communist attempts to capture Garvey’s convention failed and soured relations further.; Black communists saw allies in the party while Garvey favored Moscow — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1027
Broader Connections
- Black communists saw allies in the party while Garvey favored Moscow
#complicates(0.78) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1027