Wright joined Communism for international solidarity, not economics or politics

Evidence

It was not the economics of Communism, nor the great power of trade unions, nor the excitement of underground politics that claimed me; my attention was caught by the similarity of the experience of workers in other lands, by the possibility of uniting scattered but kindred people into a whole [H]ere at last, in the realm of revolutionary expression, Negro experience could find a home, a functioning value and role. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1351

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader question of how the Black radical tradition joined and strained against Western Marxism.