European racialism originated in intra-European caste ordering, not color

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial agrarian reform drew blueprints from European penal agricultural colonies; Hindu castes share race rather than being racial divisions; Indian anticaste thinkers linked caste and racism over a century ago (+17 more)

Related

• English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself (similarity 0.88)
• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation (similarity 0.87)
• European racialism has four analytically distinct historical moments (similarity 0.86)
• European racism predates African enslavement and originated as intra-European domination (similarity 0.85)
• Ethnic division between English and Irish workers serves capitalist domination (similarity 0.84)
• English racial ideology predated proletarianization rather than being invented to divide workers. (similarity 0.84)
• Race replaced medieval citizenship as the principle of European social order. (similarity 0.84)
• European racial hierarchy is ancient, predating modern slavery (similarity 0.83)
• English racial order prevented workers from separating class universality from racial particularism (similarity 0.83)
• English workers gained labor-aristocracy privileges within a world system (similarity 0.83)
• European racial ideology predates colonial encounters and was extended to non-Europeans later (similarity 0.83)
• Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them (similarity 0.83)
• European racism began as intra-European class domination before it was applied to Africans. (similarity 0.82)
• Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism (similarity 0.82)
• English racialism predated and shaped the proletarianization of the Irish (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Racial hierarchy and whiteness were invented inside Europe before modern capitalism #corroborates (0.80)
• Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234
• English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself #corroborates (0.70)
• The Negro and whiteness were invented in Europe through scholarly effort #corroborates (0.60)
• Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism #corroborates (0.60)
• Islamic societies originated modern racial stratification and racialized slavery #contradicts (0.60)
• European racialism has four analytically distinct historical moments #expands (0.55) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 385