Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism

Evidence

The bourgeoisie that led the development of capitalism were drawn from particular ethnic and cultural groups; the European proletariats and the mercenaries of the leading states from others; its peasants from still other cultures; and its slaves from entirely different worlds. The tendency of European civilization through capitalism was thus not to homogenize but to differentiate—to exaggerate regional, subcultural, and dialectical differences into “racial” ones. As the Slavs became the natural slaves, the racially inferior stock for domination and exploitation during the early Middle Ages, as the Tartars came to occupy a similar position in the Italian cities of the late Middle Ages, so at the systemic interlocking of capitalism in the sixteenth century, the peoples of the Third World began to fill this expanding category of a civilization reproduced by capitalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Marx held contradictory world-historical and national views of bourgeois development; Du Bois reconceptualized American slavery as a subsystem of world capitalism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 931; Marxian theory is structurally unable to grasp modern imperialism (+14 more)

Related

• Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected (similarity 0.96)
• Older British Marxists assumed race would dissolve once capitalism fell (similarity 0.91)
• Capitalism emerged within feudalism rather than negating it, rooted in racialism. (similarity 0.89)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.88)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them (similarity 0.87)
• Capitalism developed along essentially racial lines, not rational universalist ones (similarity 0.87)
• Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development. (similarity 0.87)
• Du Bois recognized Marx had not anticipated imperialism’s transformations of capitalism (similarity 0.84)
• Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism (similarity 0.83)
• Marx’s analysis could not apply to American Blacks without correction for the race problem (similarity 0.83)
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (similarity 0.83)
• Marx’s drive for theoretical elegance made him dismiss race, gender, and culture (similarity 0.83)
• Marxian theory is structurally unable to grasp modern imperialism (similarity 0.83)
• European racialism has four analytically distinct historical moments (similarity 0.82)
• Fascism arose where national bourgeoisies formed late and marshaled social forces through race ideology. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected #expands (0.80)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #expands (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital #expands (0.60)
• Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development. #corroborates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 122
• Marx’s drive for theoretical elegance made him dismiss race, gender, and culture #qualifies (0.60)
• Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism #corroborates (0.50)
• Racial hierarchy and whiteness were invented inside Europe before modern capitalism #corroborates (0.50)
• Marxism absorbed and incorporated preexisting national modes of thought rather than displacing them #expands (0.50)
• Dismissing culture as class consciousness left Marxism unequipped for political forces #expands (0.50) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 363
• Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race #expands (0.40)