Ethnic division between English and Irish workers serves capitalist domination

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: Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them; Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 267; Sugar’s labor demands drove England from Irish to West African slavery (+14 more)

Related

• Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them (similarity 0.91)
• Ethnic divisions within a working class can be exploited to strengthen capitalist rule (similarity 0.90)
• English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself (similarity 0.89)
• English racial ideology predated proletarianization rather than being invented to divide workers. (similarity 0.87)
• Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class (similarity 0.87)
• English employers explained Irish wages through racial hierarchy beliefs. (similarity 0.87)
• Racialized division between workers serves capital’s domination over both camps (similarity 0.86)
• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation (similarity 0.86)
• English workers gained labor-aristocracy privileges within a world system (similarity 0.86)
• Marx saw English and Irish workers divided into hostile national camps that strengthened capital. (similarity 0.85)
• English racialism predated and shaped the proletarianization of the Irish (similarity 0.85)
• English racial order prevented workers from separating class universality from racial particularism (similarity 0.85)
• English nationalism displaced international class solidarity among workers after 1850. (similarity 0.85)
• Capitalist proletarianization reproduced internal divisions rather than unifying the working class (similarity 0.84)
• European racialism originated in intra-European caste ordering, not color (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• English racial order prevented workers from separating class universality from racial particularism #expands (0.75)
• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation #expands (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234
• English racial ideology predated proletarianization rather than being invented to divide workers. #complicates (0.60)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #expands (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development. #corroborates (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 122
• Racial hierarchy and whiteness were invented inside Europe before modern capitalism #corroborates (0.45)
• English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself #corroborates (0.40)
• The Irish mostly sheltered Spanish castaways rather than murdering them #exemplifies (0.35) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 829
• The Irish mostly sheltered Spanish castaways and helped them escape #exemplifies (0.35) — Garrett Mattingly, The Defeat of the Spanish Armada, 829