Wright came to see Marxism as petit bourgeois ideology, not proletarian theory

Evidence

By the early 1950s, Wright had come to his similar conclusion—one that we have seen he retained for the rest of his life—but with a different meaning: Marxist theory was an expression of petit bourgeois consciousness and its critique of bourgeois society and capitalism was most fundamentally addressed to that class’s suffocation by the authority of the bourgeois ruling class. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1416

Categorization

• DEFINE: States Wright’s redefinition of Marxism’s social basis and purpose.