Wright saw capitalism’s destruction coming from its own brutalized social force

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• Wright held that Black US development was capital’s most total contradiction (similarity 0.87)
• Wright grounded his Western critique in diasporic Black historical experience. (similarity 0.84)
• Wright believed communists had oversimplified the lives of the masses. (similarity 0.84)
• Wright’s postwar reputation outlasted that of his more powerful critics (similarity 0.83)
• Wright’s fiction constitutes a running critique of Marxist class theory. (similarity 0.83)
• Wright saw revolutionary violence as capitalism destroying itself through its own brutalized creation (similarity 0.82)
• Power generates the will of the power-holder rather than serving it (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism integrated Blacks into production while shielding them from bourgeois ideology (similarity 0.81)
• Historians dispute whether slave labor drove capitalist growth (similarity 0.81)
• Wright saw the Black revolutionary movement as poised to challenge Western civilization’s very foundations. (similarity 0.81)
• Wright came to see Marxism as petit bourgeois ideology, not proletarian theory (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism depends on a noncapitalist world whose possession is imperialism’s core project (similarity 0.81)
• Juridico-political ideology masks the economic’s determinant role under capitalism (similarity 0.81)
• Wright retained Marxism as method while rejecting it as ideology (similarity 0.81)
• Wright held that Marxism expressed petit bourgeois class grievances (similarity 0.80)