Capitalists are opportunistic adapters, not the germ of a new rational order
Evidence
These “distant and separate class[es] of capitalists” were less the representatives of an immanent, rational, commercial order than extensions of particular historical dynamics and cultures. They were not the “germ” of a new order dialectically posited in an increasingly confining host—feudalism—but an opportunistic strata, willfully adaptive to the new conditions and possibilities offered by the times. Not only did different western European bourgeoisies appear in the sixteenth century, but these new bourgeoisie were implicated in structures, institutions, and organizations that were substantively undeveloped in the Middle Ages. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 174
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected (similarity 0.89)
- Capitalism emerged within feudalism rather than negating it, rooted in racialism. (similarity 0.86)
- Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism (similarity 0.86)
- Capitalism developed along essentially racial lines, not rational universalist ones (similarity 0.85)
- Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.85)
- Capitalism never achieved the coherence promised by an objective system (similarity 0.84)
- Capitalism integrated Blacks into production while shielding them from bourgeois ideology (similarity 0.83)
- Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with parliamentary democracy (similarity 0.83)
- Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them (similarity 0.83)
- Older British Marxists assumed race would dissolve once capitalism fell (similarity 0.83)
- Capitalism is symptomatic of a deeper civilizational disorder that Marxism fails to name (similarity 0.82)
- Capitalists deploy racism to fracture labor movements into competing factions (similarity 0.82)
- Capitalist expansion did not reduce colonized nations to Marx’s two-class bourgeois model (similarity 0.82)
- Feudalism’s social composition determined capitalism’s form (similarity 0.82)
- Racism supplied non-Black workers a fictive status in place of material well-being. (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected
#corroborates(0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 115