Nationalism subverted socialism and overtook capitalist development worldwide

Evidence

It was indeed nationalism, a second “bourgeois” accretion, that most subverted the socialist creation. Nationalism, as a mix of racial sensibility and the economic interests of the national bourgeoisies, was as powerful an ideological impulse as any spawned from these strata. As an acquired temper and as a historical force met on the fields of social and political revolution, nationalism bemused the founders of historical materialism and those who followed them. It was to overtake both the direction of capitalist development and eventually the formative structures of socialist societies as they appeared in the present century. The historical trajectories of those developments, again, were almost entirely unexpected in a theoretical universe from which it had been discerned that ideology and false consciousness were supposedly being expelled. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 116

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the question of why marxism historically lost ground to national consciousness, relevant across multiple radical-tradition studies. — connects to: Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362; Marxism’s dismissal of culture left it unequipped for nationalism; Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation (+13 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: when nationalism ‘overtook the formative structures of socialist societies,’ does Robinson date this to specific 20th-century socialist states besides the USSR? Also relevant to the reader’s downfall-of-the-tradition arc.
• DEFINE: Defines nationalism as ‘a mix of racial sensibility and the economic interests of the national bourgeoisies’ — a core framing device for the whole book’s argument.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 116

Broader Connections

• Capitalism’s global unification paradoxically generated nationalism as fragmentation #corroborates (0.80)
• Marx held contradictory world-historical and national views of bourgeois development #responds-to (0.75)
• Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class #complicates (0.60) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 267
• Romantic revolt glorified will over intellect and allied with nationalism #corroborates (0.40) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2637