Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies.

Evidence

The bourgeoisie that led the development of capitalism were drawn from particular ethnic and cultural groups; the European proletariats and the mercenaries of the leading states from others; its peasants from still other cultures; and its slaves from entirely different worlds. The tendency of European civilization through capitalism was thus not to homogenize but to differentiate—to exaggerate regional, subcultural, and dialectical differences into “racial” ones. As the Slavs became the natural slaves, the racially inferior stock for domination and exploitation during the early Middle Ages, as the Tartars came to occupy a similar position in the Italian cities of the late Middle Ages, so at the systemic interlocking of capitalism in the sixteenth century, the peoples of the Third World began to fill this expanding category of a civilization reproduced by capitalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Racial segmentation is economically reproduced through unfree labor institutions like reserves and compounds; Latin American underdevelopment results from articulation of modes, not inevitable capitalist transformation; Racism is a hegemonic practice that is articulated with, not necessary to, capitalist formations (+49 more)

Related

• Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected (similarity 0.91)
• Capitalism emerged within feudalism rather than negating it, rooted in racialism. (similarity 0.91)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them (similarity 0.90)
• Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development. (similarity 0.89)
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (similarity 0.88)
• Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism (similarity 0.88)
• Capitalism developed along essentially racial lines, not rational universalist ones (similarity 0.88)
• Older British Marxists assumed race would dissolve once capitalism fell (similarity 0.87)
• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply (similarity 0.86)
• Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism (similarity 0.86)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance (similarity 0.86)
• European racialism has four analytically distinct historical moments (similarity 0.85)
• Racialism was already routine in Europe by the close of the Middle Ages (similarity 0.85)
• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition (similarity 0.84)
• Post-1877 capitalism used differential reward by race to stabilize wealth (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #expands (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital #expands (0.70)
• Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism #contradicts (0.65)
• Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development. #contradicts (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 122
• Racial hierarchy and whiteness were invented inside Europe before modern capitalism #contradicts (0.60)
• Colonial moral epithets encoded specific class and racial transgressions #expands (0.55)
• Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. #corroborates (0.50) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82