Fascism arose where national bourgeoisies formed late and marshaled social forces through race ideology.
Evidence
The historical development of world capitalism was influenced in a most fundamental way by the particularistic forces of racism and nationalism. This could only be true if the social, psychological, and cultural origins of racism and nationalism both anticipated capitalism in time and formed a piece with those events that contributed directly to its organization of production and exchange. Feudal society is the key. More particularly, the antagonistic commitments, structures, and ambitions that feudal society encompassed are better conceptualized as those of a developing civilization than as elements of a unified tradition. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 122 (
#qualifies, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 122; Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234; Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (+10 more)
Related
- Capitalism emerged within feudalism rather than negating it, rooted in racialism. (similarity 0.91)
- Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development. (similarity 0.88)
- Fascism marshaled national social forces through race, Herrenvolk, and nationalism (similarity 0.86)
- English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself (similarity 0.85)
- Fascism makes the antisemitic racial doctrine true by acting on it. (similarity 0.84)
- Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation (similarity 0.83)
- Capitalism and racism evolved organically from feudalism rather than negating it (similarity 0.83)
- Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.83)
- Capitalism emerged from feudalism, not as its negation (similarity 0.83)
- Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (similarity 0.83)
- Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism (similarity 0.82)
- Nationalism subverted socialism and overtook capitalist development worldwide (similarity 0.82)
- Racialism entered Western social thought as early as the feudal period (similarity 0.82)
- Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism (similarity 0.82)
- Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies.
#corroborates(0.65) - Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development.
#qualifies(0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 122 - Racial hierarchy and whiteness were invented inside Europe before modern capitalism
#qualifies(0.55) - Capitalism emerged within feudalism rather than negating it, rooted in racialism.
#corroborates(0.55) - Nationalism subverted socialism and overtook capitalist development worldwide
#expands(0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 116 - Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation
#qualifies(0.40) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234 - Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital
#complicates(0.40) - Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them
#qualifies(0.40)