World War I barracks forged cross-colonial Black political exchange.

Evidence

Harold Cruse’s 1962 essay, “Revolutionary Nationalism and the Afro-American,” which argued that Black people in the United States were living under domestic colonialism and that their struggles must be seen as part of the worldwide anticolonial movement. … Cruse reversed the traditional argument that the success of socialism in the developed West is key to the emancipation of colonial subjects and the development of socialism in the Third World. Instead, he saw the former colonies as the vanguard of the new socialist revolution, with Cuba and China at the forefront: “The revolutionary initiative has passed to the colonial world, and in the United States is passing to the Negro, while Western Marxists theorize, temporize and debate.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 26 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Broader Connections

• Black struggles in the US function under domestic colonialism linked to worldwide anticolonialism #expands (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 26