Unexpected ideology intrudes to derail Marxism’s predicted historical inevitability

Evidence

Ideology, especially in the twentieth century, has come to play a discordant role within the body of modern social thought, somewhat akin to that which slavery assumed among the rationalistic analytical frameworks concomitant to the rise of capitalism. Ideology, simply, is a negation of those strains of contemporary social inquiry that have become dominant. Its “intrusions” in our century and the one that preceded it have helped to abort those social and historical processes believed to be necessary and inevitable; have catalyzed rebellions and revolutions in often unlikely circumstances and among unlikely peoples; and have assisted in extraordinary historical achievement where failure was “objectively” immanent. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 382

Categorization

• XREF: Robinson’s argument that ideology derails Marxism prefigures the later development of the Black radical tradition as an unforeseen ideological force he will map in later chapters. — connects to: Expecting German revolution in response to Nazism is why Marxism anchored Institute thought. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 68