Capitalist modernity cannot be understood from its internal dynamics alone

Evidence

What is also at stake here, as demonstrated in his comments later in the interview, is that, just as an understanding of the development of capitalist modernity cannot be generated adequately by dealing only with its internal dynamics, nor can any history of resistances to those structures. His account of his time as a student at Oxford demonstrates the key role played in the formation of the New Left of the 1950s and 1960s by colonial intellectuals from a variety of “elsewheres.” — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 487

Categorization

• XREF: Core scaffolding point: colonial periphery is constitutive of the metropolis — parallels how critiques of Islamophobia insist race/Islam operate within, not outside, Western modernity. — connects to: Modernity is best understood as the civilization produced by global capitalism — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 162; Modernity should be defined as the civilization capitalism built. — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 162; Modernism emerged from a specific industrial-capitalist conjuncture that postwar capitalism destroyed — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 562 (+8 more)