Capitalism’s global spread spawned nationalism as its historical cost

Evidence

The contradiction here is that capitalism, even as it spread remorselessly over the world to unite human society into one more or less connected story for the first time, also engendered a perilous and convulsive new fragmentation of that society. The socio-historical cost of this rapid implantation of capitalism into world society was “nationalism.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 370

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s goal of tracing the Black radical tradition’s arc — connects to W.E.B. Du Bois and the nationalist response of colonized peoples; also resonates with the ‘uneven development’ idea from core Marxism. — connects to: Marx and Engels judged nationalism by its service to industrial capital — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 353; Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation; Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 122 (+12 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 370

Broader Connections

• Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation #corroborates (0.85)
• Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development. #contradicts (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 122
• Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world #complicates (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362
• Modern capitalist societies experience themselves as pluralistic rather than unified #expands (0.40)