Western radicalism fled the recognition that racialism exceeds economic forces

Evidence

In its conceptually formidable reaction against irresponsible power, calculated social destruction, and the systematic exploitation of human beings, there seemed to us to be a discernible reluctance in Western radicalism, or to put it more strongly, a flight from the recognition that something more than objective material forces were responsible for “the nastiness” as Peter Blackman puts it. There was the sense that something of a more profound nature than the obsession with property was askew in a civilization that could organize and celebrate—on a scale beyond previous human experience—the brutal degradations of life and the most acute violations of human destiny. It seemed a certainty that the system of capitalism was part of it, but as well symptomatic of it. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1427

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• XREF: States the core indictment of Marxism motivating Chapters 1-2.

Related

• Black radicals rejected Marxism for its Eurocentric blindness to racialism’s role in capitalism (similarity 0.85)
• The Black radical tradition challenged Western radicalism’s assumptions about capitalism and ideology (similarity 0.85)
• The Black radical movement outweighed Marxism’s influence even on its most Westernized intellectuals (similarity 0.85)
• The Black radical tradition offers one part of the solution to Western civilization’s crisis. (similarity 0.84)
• Modern capitalism emerged only within the framework of the evolving western state (similarity 0.84)
• The Black radical tradition rejects capitalism’s power to erase historical consciousness in culture (similarity 0.84)
• Capitalism is a symptom of something deeper and unnameable in Western civilization (similarity 0.84)
• Capitalism failed to strip social life of historical consciousness embedded in culture (similarity 0.84)
• The Black radical tradition challenges Western radicalism’s claims about capitalism and the vanguard intelligentsia. (similarity 0.83)
• A civilization like Europe’s could not produce self-critique exposing its own racialism (similarity 0.83)
• Marxism’s explanatory power made it irresistible to Black radical intellectuals (similarity 0.83)
• Black radicalism is transcending nationalism and class struggle for its own authority (similarity 0.83)
• Racialism permeated even the rebellious proletariat and radical intelligentsia (similarity 0.83)
• Black radicalism is an autonomous African response, not a Black variant of Western radicalism (similarity 0.83)
• The Black radical tradition abandons Western ideologies for its own independent authority. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism #corroborates (0.85)