Capitalism integrated Blacks into production while shielding them from bourgeois ideology
Evidence
Wright was arguing that American Blacks had been re-created from their African origins by an oppressive system of capitalist exploitation that had at one and the same time integrated them into the emergent organization of industrial production while suspending them from the full impact of bourgeois ideology. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1389
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- American slavery integrated Blacks into production while barring bourgeois ideology (similarity 0.94)
- Racism supplied non-Black workers a fictive status in place of material well-being. (similarity 0.84)
- Capitalism developed along essentially racial lines, not rational universalist ones (similarity 0.84)
- Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.84)
- Black proletarians developed a psychic identity independent of bourgeois ideology. (similarity 0.84)
- Marxism is an internal critique that cannot ground Black liberation by itself (similarity 0.83)
- The Black bourgeoisie’s class interests diverged from Black labor during Reconstruction (similarity 0.83)
- Racial consciousness supplied fictive status to white workers while excluding Blacks (similarity 0.83)
- Racialism permeated even the rebellious proletariat and radical intelligentsia (similarity 0.83)
- Capitalism failed to strip social life of historical consciousness embedded in culture (similarity 0.83)
- Capitalists are opportunistic adapters, not the germ of a new rational order (similarity 0.83)
- Nationalism in exploited regions derives from indigenous ideational systems (similarity 0.83)
- Black radical consciousness grew from American social history of racialized labor (similarity 0.83)
- Transported African consciousness infected the slave system with contradiction (similarity 0.83)
- Wright came to see Marxism as petit bourgeois ideology, not proletarian theory (similarity 0.83)