Wright’s intellectual arc moved from Marxism through Existentialism to Black nationalism

Evidence

The ambiguity surrounding Wright is, in part, a consequence of his own intellectual odyssey. More precisely it is a consequence of his public honesty about the voyage. It was a journey that took him from Marxism, and through Existentialism, and finally to Black nationalism—a journey that could be retraced biographically from his membership in the American Communist Party in the early 1930s to his death in France in 1960. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1328

Categorization

• XREF: This trajectory — Marxism to nationalism — parallels the broader rise-and-fall arc central to the reader’s whole reading purpose.