Capitalism produced revolutionary classes at both poles of its expropriation

Evidence

Moreover, James seemed willing to challenge Marx and Engels on the very grounds they had laid for the sociological and political significance of early capitalism. While they had been content to locate the formation of the modern revolutionary proletariat at the core of capitalist industrial production, James was insisting that the sphere be broadened. “At the same time as the French [masses], the half-savage slaves of San Domingo were showing themselves subject to the same historical laws as the advanced workers of revolutionary Paris” (p. 243). Capitalism had produced its social and historical negations in both poles of its expropriation: capitalist accumulation gave birth to the proletariat at the manufacturing core; “primitive accumulation” deposited the social base for the revolutionary masses in the peripheries. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1286

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The core theoretical move of Black Marxism: the periphery is not derivative of the core but a parallel site of revolutionary class formation — this reworks Marx’s own geography of revolution.
• XREF: connects to: Proletarian integration into capitalism proceeded through organization rather than revolutionary consciousness — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 673; Capitalism’s own productive development raised worker living standards and defused revolutionary hunger — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 662; Second Industrial Revolution networks created no new class to challenge capitalists — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 380 (+1 more)