Aristotle’s racial ideology was sustained until a scientistic rationale replaced it
Evidence
Aristotle was thus sustained into the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries until a more scientistic rationale could overtake the ideological needs of the New Imperialism. Still, through Aristotle the convergence of moral resolution and practical necessity between Christian societies of the medieval and modern periods and the slave societies of the pre-Christian eras was striking: — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 508
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Aristotelian justifications for slavery persisted until modern scientific racism (similarity 0.90)
- Aristotle’s racial hierarchy persisted in European thought through Hitler and apartheid (similarity 0.84)
- Aristotle’s racial hierarchy outlasted anticolonial critiques like Las Casas’s (similarity 0.83)
- Marx inherited Aristotle’s dismissal of slaves as incapable of historical agency. (similarity 0.83)
- Marx reproduced Aristotle’s theoretical marginalization of slaves. (similarity 0.83)
- Modern Western science merely updated older religious rationales for racial hierarchy (similarity 0.82)
- The Black Radical Tradition arose from racial domination’s accumulated culture and turned toward overthrow (similarity 0.82)
- Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected (similarity 0.81)
- Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism (similarity 0.81)
- Racism shaped Western science, not the reverse (similarity 0.80)
- Racial ideology began as a slave-system byproduct and became a material force (similarity 0.80)
- Aristotle’s doctrine framed medieval debates justifying or refuting slavery (similarity 0.80)
- Western radicalism fled the recognition that racialism exceeds economic forces (similarity 0.80)
- European racial ideology predated and justified the African slave trade, not vice versa (similarity 0.80)
- A civilization like Europe’s could not produce self-critique exposing its own racialism (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Marx’s blind spot on slavery descended directly from Aristotle’s philosophy of slaves
#expands(0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 82 - Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism
#corroborates(0.55) - Ideologies change when subordinate elements of old ideology become primary
#expands(0.50) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 629 - Hunting for a single originator of an ideology is a reductionist mistake
#complicates(0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2174 - Race replaced medieval citizenship as the principle of European social order.
#expands(0.45) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 208 - Western radicalism fled the recognition that racialism exceeds economic forces
#corroborates(0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1427