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"But always we must keep in mind that their brilliance was also derivative. The truer genius was in the midst of the people of whom they wrote. There the struggle was more than words or ideas but life itself."
– C. Robinson, Black Marxism (1983)
This reminds me of when a white anarchist said at an event they wondered what they could express about communism to people who live in a very working class CentAm immigrant neighborhood they moved into and I was like... uh it's the other way around but they never listen.