Du Bois concluded slavery and capitalism were systemically linked and periphery drove revolution

Evidence

From whatever vantage point one chooses, the relationship between slave labor, the slave trade, and the weaving of the early capitalist economies is apparent. Whatever were the alternatives, the point remains: historically, slavery was a critical foundation for capitalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Post-1877 capitalism used differential reward by race to stabilize wealth; Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584; Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition (+17 more)

Related

• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism (similarity 0.90)
• Du Bois reconceptualized American slavery as a subsystem of world capitalism (similarity 0.89)
• Slavery was systemic to modern capitalism, not an historical aberration. (similarity 0.88)
• American slavery was a forewarning of how capitalism would exploit global labor (similarity 0.87)
• Depression and slavery-era crises both fundamentally transformed capitalist relations (similarity 0.87)
• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition (similarity 0.87)
• Ottoman expansion, sugar cultivation, and Genoese-Iberian alliance made slave labor central to capitalism (similarity 0.87)
• British capitalism ended West Indian slavery but thrived on American, Cuban, and Brazilian slavery (similarity 0.86)
• Slave labor sustained the extra-European market that industrial capitalism built on (similarity 0.86)
• European colonization employed slave labor as its foundational institution, not incidentally (similarity 0.86)
• Madeira’s sugar plantations first institutionalized slave labor as capitalist commodity production (similarity 0.86)
• Slaves and agrarian workers, not industrial workers, attacked capitalism (similarity 0.86)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance (similarity 0.86)
• Du Bois recognized Marx had not anticipated imperialism’s transformations of capitalism (similarity 0.85)
• Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition #corroborates (0.90)
• Slavery was a critical foundation for early capitalism #corroborates (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 584
• Slave labor was integral to modern capitalism, not a pre-capitalist stage #corroborates (0.70)
• British capitalism ended West Indian slavery but thrived on American, Cuban, and Brazilian slavery #corroborates (0.65)
• Slave-trade fortunes funded the bourgeoisie who made the French Revolution #corroborates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 574
• Ottoman expansion, sugar cultivation, and Genoese-Iberian alliance made slave labor central to capitalism #corroborates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 556
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms #expands (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434
• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply #expands (0.60)
• Slave subordination in plantation society rested on productive relations more than race alone. #expands (0.55)
• Post-emancipation forced labor pushed Black resistance toward new ideologies #corroborates (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434
• Madeira’s sugar plantations first institutionalized slave labor as capitalist commodity production #corroborates (0.50)
• American slavery was a forewarning of how capitalism would exploit global labor #expands (0.50)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance #qualifies (0.50)