Capitalism never achieved the coherence promised by an objective system
Evidence
A primary consequence of the conflict between those two social tendencies was that capitalists, as the architects of this system, never achieved the coherence of structure and organization that had been the promise of capitalism as an objective system. On the contrary, the history of capitalism has in no way distinguished itself from earlier eras with respect to wars, material crises, and social conflicts. A secondary consequence is that the critique of capitalism, to the extent that its protagonists have based their analyses upon the presumption of a determinant economic rationality in the development and expansion of capitalism, has been characterized by an incapacity to come to terms with the world system’s direction of developments. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 123
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Capitalism never achieved coherence because racial-national particularism resisted it (similarity 0.89)
- Capitalism never became a coherent objective system because race and nation fragmented it (similarity 0.88)
- Capitalists are opportunistic adapters, not the germ of a new rational order (similarity 0.84)
- Crises in capitalism do not inevitably dissolve pre-capitalist modes. (similarity 0.84)
- Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected (similarity 0.84)
- Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.84)
- Capital’s systemic imperatives cannot be reduced to economic rationality alone (similarity 0.82)
- Capitalism emerged within feudalism rather than negating it, rooted in racialism. (similarity 0.82)
- Feudalism’s social composition determined capitalism’s form (similarity 0.82)
- Uneven capitalist development replaced feudal instruments and demanded new historical agents (similarity 0.82)
- Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism (similarity 0.81)
- Modern capitalism emerged only within the framework of the evolving western state (similarity 0.81)
- Capitalist interests that built the slave system later turned and destroyed it (similarity 0.81)
- Older British Marxists assumed race would dissolve once capitalism fell (similarity 0.81)
- Capitalism developed along essentially racial lines, not rational universalist ones (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with any particular political or legal form
#expands(0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 624 - Modern capitalist societies experience themselves as pluralistic rather than unified
#epitomizes(0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 917 - The economy never operates free of political and ideological practices
#expands(0.55) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 532 - Capitalists are opportunistic adapters, not the germ of a new rational order
#expands(0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 174 - Capitalism failed to strip social life of historical consciousness embedded in culture
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