Wright joined the party believing communists had misread workers’ lived experience.

Evidence

Wright took this responsibility as a proletarian writer quite seriously. He was committed to the task of expressing working-class thought, consciousness, and experience. One recollection of this period is his first impression of the party: “The Communists, I felt, had oversimplified the experience of those whom they sought to lead [T]hey had missed the meaning of the lives of the masses.” Wright meant to put this right, the proletariat had to be allowed its own voice. It was just as clear to him that he carried a particular, racial responsibility toward the Black working classes: The Negro writer who seeks to function within his race as a purposeful agent has a serious responsibility … — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1345