Wright sought to restore the lived meaning Marxism abstracted away

Evidence

Here, then, was something that I could do, reveal, say. The Communists, I felt, had oversimplified the experience of those whom they sought to lead. In their efforts to recruit masses, they had missed the meaning of the lives of the masses, had conceived of people in too abstract a manner. I would try to put some of that meaning back, I would tell Communists how common people felt, and I would tell common people of the self-sacrifice of the Communists who strove for unity among them. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1355

Categorization

• XREF: Previews the core tension Robinson frames: Black radical tradition as corrective to Marxist abstraction.