Older British Marxists assumed race would dissolve once capitalism fell

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 (#contradicts, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected; Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205; Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race (+5 more)

Related

• Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected (similarity 0.91)
• Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism (similarity 0.91)
• Capitalism emerged within feudalism rather than negating it, rooted in racialism. (similarity 0.87)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.87)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them (similarity 0.86)
• Racism and nationalism predate capitalism and shaped its development. (similarity 0.83)
• Capitalism developed along essentially racial lines, not rational universalist ones (similarity 0.83)
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (similarity 0.83)
• Marx’s analysis could not apply to American Blacks without correction for the race problem (similarity 0.83)
• Racialism was already routine in Europe by the close of the Middle Ages (similarity 0.82)
• Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism (similarity 0.82)
• Marx’s drive for theoretical elegance made him dismiss race, gender, and culture (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalists are opportunistic adapters, not the germ of a new rational order (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalism never became a coherent objective system because race and nation fragmented it (similarity 0.82)
• Fascism arose where national bourgeoisies formed late and marshaled social forces through race ideology. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #contradicts (0.95) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected #contradicts (0.90)
• Marxism failed to comprehend nationalism, consciousness, racism, and Black history #expands (0.80)
• Marxism must be supplemented to account for racial oppression #expands (0.80) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 307
• Black Marxism grew as a new vision centered on cultural corruption of race #complicates (0.75)
• Industrial capital weaponized racism to fragment the labor movement #corroborates (0.75)
• Marxism failed among Black Americans because Communists ignored racial reality #exemplifies (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2210
• Racialism pervaded Western consciousness before and beyond capitalism #qualifies (0.70)