Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation

Evidence

It would appear that the ideological and social response of the English working classes to the immanent domination by a new social order was not restricted to class-specific or economistic behaviors. The class consciousness of English workers did not strictly adhere to the logic of working-class formation premised on capitalist exploitation and modeled by Marx from the histories of the French and English bourgeoisies. Indeed, the more profound reaction to an industrial capitalist order found among English “producers” in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, largely deterred those political and social consequences of proletarianization that had already become the dogma of English radical thought and expectation in the years immediately following the Great Revolution in France. The development of Anglo-Saxon chauvinism, the earliest form of English nationalism, and the appearance of rather extreme forms of racism among the English working class determined the form and characteristics that English working-class consciousness assumed. The parochialisms of ethnocentrism and race hostility constituted a response that was both a native of and a consequence to the loss of precapitalist social integrations. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362; Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism; Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (+24 more)

Related

• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation (similarity 0.87)
• Modern capitalist societies experience themselves as pluralistic rather than unified (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalism’s global spread spawned nationalism as its historical cost (similarity 0.85)
• Capitalism’s global expansion paradoxically produced nationalist fragmentation. (similarity 0.83)
• English nationalism displaced class solidarity after Chartism’s defeat. (similarity 0.83)
• Nationalism subverted socialism and overtook capitalist development worldwide (similarity 0.83)
• Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world (similarity 0.82)
• England’s imperial geography forced race into its nationalism as a linking device (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them (similarity 0.82)
• English workers gained labor-aristocracy privileges within a world system (similarity 0.82)
• English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself (similarity 0.82)
• Ethnic division between English and Irish workers serves capitalist domination (similarity 0.82)
• Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them (similarity 0.81)
• English racial order prevented workers from separating class universality from racial particularism (similarity 0.81)
• Fascism arose where national bourgeoisies formed late and marshaled social forces through race ideology. (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism failed to strip social life of historical consciousness embedded in culture #complicates (0.55)
• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation #exemplifies (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #complicates (0.50)
• Communication media bias societies toward either spatial expansion or temporal continuity #complicates (0.45) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 542
• Full autonomy of social levels cannot capture a social formation’s complex unity #complicates (0.35)