English workers’ internationalist class identity retreated into nationalism before the 1840s

Evidence

English society was the first to have developed an industrial proletariat among its working classes. Yet well before the peaks of Luddite and Chartist protests and during the heyday of the earlier Owenite socialism, the supranationalist class identity that Thompson has noted among English workers and in the “heroic culture” they produced between the French Revolution and the defeat of Chartism (while demonstrating its erratic course) had begun its retreat before protonationalism. This was one aspect of the “lost vision” of the English working classes in the 1830s, and one that Thompson was forced to reluctantly recognize: It is easy enough to say that this culture was backward-looking or conservative. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 237

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

Related

• English workers abandoned supranationalist class identity for protonationalism by the 1830s (similarity 0.96)
• English workers’ racialized consciousness gave no objective basis for universal class politics (similarity 0.86)
• Supranationalist class identity among English workers retreated before nationalism (similarity 0.86)
• English workers gained labor-aristocracy privileges within a world system (similarity 0.86)
• Irish nationalism shaped English working-class consciousness more than production did (similarity 0.86)
• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation (similarity 0.84)
• English nationalism displaced international class solidarity among workers after 1850. (similarity 0.84)
• English racial ideology predated proletarianization rather than being invented to divide workers. (similarity 0.83)
• Unemployment in interwar England detached workers from identifying with the ruling classes. (similarity 0.83)
• English racialism predated and shaped the proletarianization of the Irish (similarity 0.83)
• Labor bureaucrats steered English unionism away from class struggle into nationalism (similarity 0.82)
• The bohemia-working-class alliance drove British and Irish pop culture for three decades (similarity 0.82)
• Depression-era English Marxism recruited intellectuals, not workers. (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalist proletarianization reproduced internal divisions rather than unifying the working class (similarity 0.82)
• English nationalism insulated British socialists from continental socialist currents (similarity 0.82)