Imperialism politically emancipated the previously excluded bourgeoisie

Evidence

The bourgeoisie, so long excluded from government by the nation-state and by their own lack of interest in public affairs, was politically emancipated by imperialism. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 376

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: Clarifies what ‘political emancipation of the bourgeoisie’ means as a mechanism of the title chapter.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s Islamophobia scaffolding on how class interests get expressed through state power and nationalism.

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• Imperialism is the first stage of bourgeois political rule, not capitalism’s last (similarity 0.86)
• The bourgeoisie ruled economically while leaving politics to the state (similarity 0.82)
• Imperialism was pushed by business and welcomed by educated elites (similarity 0.82)
• The bourgeoisie’s alliance with the mob destroyed the nation-state it needed (similarity 0.80)
• The bourgeoisie won by capturing the State, not by winning wars. (similarity 0.79)
• Imperial expansion rescued the bourgeoisie from being superfluous within the nation. (similarity 0.79)