England’s imperial geography forced race into its nationalism as a linking device

Evidence

It would appear that the ideological and social response of the English working classes to the immanent domination by a new social order was not restricted to class-specific or economistic behaviors. The class consciousness of English workers did not strictly adhere to the logic of working-class formation premised on capitalist exploitation and modeled by Marx from the histories of the French and English bourgeoisies. Indeed, the more profound reaction to an industrial capitalist order found among English “producers” in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, largely deterred those political and social consequences of proletarianization that had already become the dogma of English radical thought and expectation in the years immediately following the Great Revolution in France. The development of Anglo-Saxon chauvinism, the earliest form of English nationalism, and the appearance of rather extreme forms of racism among the English working class determined the form and characteristics that English working-class consciousness assumed. The parochialisms of ethnocentrism and race hostility constituted a response that was both a native of and a consequence to the loss of precapitalist social integrations. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Britain transplanted its nation through colonization rather than building a multi-peopled empire; Abolition without a universal rights frame seeded England’s racial doctrines; Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234 (+5 more)

Related

• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation (similarity 0.82)
• English workers gained labor-aristocracy privileges within a world system (similarity 0.81)
• Abolition without a universal rights frame seeded England’s racial doctrines (similarity 0.80)
• English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself (similarity 0.80)
• Encountering metropolitan England’s racism shattered colonial Blacks’ faith in the Empire. (similarity 0.80)
• European racialism originated in intra-European caste ordering, not color (similarity 0.80)
• English workers’ racialized consciousness gave no objective basis for universal class politics (similarity 0.80)
• Racial ideology entered English statecraft through governing India, not the colonies (similarity 0.79)
• English workers’ internationalist class identity retreated into nationalism before the 1840s (similarity 0.79)
• Britain transplanted its nation through colonization rather than building a multi-peopled empire (similarity 0.79)
• Ethnic division between English and Irish workers serves capitalist domination (similarity 0.79)
• English nationalism displaced class solidarity after Chartism’s defeat. (similarity 0.79)
• Supranationalist class identity among English workers retreated before nationalism (similarity 0.79)
• English racial ideology predated proletarianization rather than being invented to divide workers. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation #expands (0.85) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234
• Racial ideology entered English statecraft through governing India, not the colonies #qualifies (0.80)
• English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself #expands (0.75)
• Britain’s imperial legacy turned black migration into phobic post-colonial melancholia #complicates (0.75)
• Post-imperial Britain grieves its lost power into racial phobia #complicates (0.75)
• Postwar Caribbean migration exposed Britain’s latent imperial racial stereotypes #exemplifies (0.70)