Capital cannot yield all of Marxism without further theoretical development because capitalism constantly develops

Evidence

The chapter on primitive accumulation does not pretend to do more than trace the path by which, in Western Europe, the capitalist order of economy emerged from the womb of the feudal order of economy… . That is all. But that is too little for my critic. He feels he absolutely must metamorphose my historical sketch of the genesis of capitalism in Western Europe into a historico-philosophic theory of the general path every people is fated to tread, whatever the historical circumstances in which it finds itself, in order that it may ultimately arrive at the form of economy which ensures, together with the greatest expansion of the productive powers of social labour, the most complete development of man. But I beg his pardon. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 351 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Having accepted the fundamental Marxian postulates on the nature of capitalist society, Marxists cannot go back to Venetian, Hanseatic, Dutch or even early English imperialism for the essential concepts of the components of that phenomenon. It thus becomes a crucially limiting position which entails procrustean operations in the handling of the facts of modern social change as they relentlessly impose themselves upon us. The rigid ideas concerning the role of industrial workers in modern revolutionary movements, and the earlier Marxian predictions giving precedence to the more advanced capitalist nations in the succession of socialist revolutions, are all derivatives of the theory. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2142 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Marx disavowed reading Western European capitalist development as a universal path (similarity 0.86)
• Marxian theory is structurally unable to grasp modern imperialism (similarity 0.86)
• Marx’s primitive accumulation is actually capitalist accumulation itself. (similarity 0.83)
• Marx disavowed any universal historical theory of capitalist development (similarity 0.83)
• Capitalism failed to strip social life of historical consciousness embedded in culture (similarity 0.82)
• Marx denied that his account of capitalism’s genesis applied universally (similarity 0.82)
• Marx concluded capitalism was the only mode of production he could adequately theorize. (similarity 0.81)
• Marxism is an internal critique that cannot ground Black liberation by itself (similarity 0.81)
• Treating Capital as a complete theory contradicts Marx’s own premise of continuous development. (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalism was shaped by preexisting European civilization, not the reverse (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected (similarity 0.80)
• Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism (similarity 0.80)
• Marx explicitly restricted primitive accumulation’s historical necessity to Western Europe (similarity 0.80)
• Each Marxian premise alone yields reductionism or relativism (similarity 0.79)
• European Marxists mistook their localized structures for universal historical truths (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Marx denied that his account of capitalism’s genesis applied universally #corroborates (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 351
• Marxian theory is structurally unable to grasp modern imperialism #expands (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2142
• The Second International enshrined reductive economic determinism as official Marxism #contradicts (0.50)