Western social oppositions only became historically significant once adopted by Third World peoples

Evidence

The industrial nations are self-destructing. Others, too, of course, will be affected. But the racial mythology that accompanied capitalist industrial formation and provided its social structures engendered no truly profound alternatives. The social, ideological, and political oppositions generated within Western societies have proven unequal to the task. They have acquired historical significance only when they received comfort in the consciousness of Third World peoples. There they mingled with other cultures, taking their place among social priorities and historical visions largely alien from their sites of origin. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1444

Categorization

• XREF: Directly answers the reader’s question about the tradition’s height and location — connects to mid-chapter coverage of Third World movements and echoes earlier arguments that Marxism was a Western provincialism.