Capitalism never became a coherent objective system because race and nation fragmented it

Evidence

The processes through which the world system emerged contained an opposition between the rationalistic thrusts of an economistic worldview and the political momenta of collectivist logic. The feudal state, an instrument of signal importance to the bourgeoisie, was to prove to be as consistently antithetical to the commercial integration represented by a world system as it had to the idea of Christendom. Neither the state nor later the nation could slough off the particularistic psychologies and interests that served as contradictions to a global community. 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. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 123

Categorization

• XREF: This is the book’s central ‘racial capitalism’ thesis, distinct from orthodox Marxism’s economistic determinism. — connects to: Fragmented identity makes classical Marxist alienation obsolete. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 362
• DEFINE: Defines the RACIAL CAPITALISM concept that the whole tradition analysis hangs on.