Wright believed communists had oversimplified the lives of the masses.
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- Wright saw Communists as missing the meaning of masses’ actual lives (similarity 0.84)
- Wright saw capitalism’s destruction coming from its own brutalized social force (similarity 0.84)
- Wright sought to restore the lived meaning Marxism abstracted away (similarity 0.84)
- Wright held that Black US development was capital’s most total contradiction (similarity 0.83)
- Wright grounded his Western critique in diasporic Black historical experience. (similarity 0.82)
- Wright joined the party believing communists had misread workers’ lived experience. (similarity 0.81)
- Wright’s postwar reputation outlasted that of his more powerful critics (similarity 0.80)
- Wright’s fiction constitutes a running critique of Marxist class theory. (similarity 0.79)
- Wright was vilified by the American Left, liberals, and state bureaucrats alike (similarity 0.78)
- Gramsci read the Bolsheviks as living Marx’s living thought against dogmatic determinism (similarity 0.78)