Post-1877 capitalism used differential reward by race to stabilize wealth

Evidence

But even more to the point, we have seen that the generic terms “the English working class” or “the English proletariat” mask the social and historical realities that accompanied the introduction of industrial capitalism in England and its Empire. Social divisions and habits of life and attitude that predated capitalist production continued into the modern era and extended to the working classes located in Britain specific social sensibilities and consciousness. The English working class was never the singular social and historical entity suggested by the phrase. An even closer study of its elements—for we have merely reviewed the more extreme case with the Irish—would reveal other social divisions, some ethnic (Welsh, Scottish, and more recently West Indian and Asian), some regional, and others essentially industrial and occupational. The negations resultant from capitalist modes of production, relations of production, and ideology did not manifest themselves as an eradication of oppositions among the working classes. Instead, the dialectic of proletarianization disciplined the working classes to the importance of distinctions: between ethnics and nationalities; between skilled and unskilled workers; and, as we shall see later in even more dramatic terms, between races. The persistence and creation of such oppositions within the working classes were a critical aspect of the triumph of capitalism in the nineteenth century. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 267 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Post-1877 racial division of labor was engineered to stabilize capitalist wealth; Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205; Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (+9 more)

Related

• Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class (similarity 0.93)
• Post-1877 racial division of labor was engineered to stabilize capitalist wealth (similarity 0.91)
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (similarity 0.89)
• Ethnic divisions within a working class can be exploited to strengthen capitalist rule (similarity 0.89)
• Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them (similarity 0.89)
• Capitalist proletarianization reproduced internal divisions rather than unifying the working class (similarity 0.86)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them (similarity 0.85)
• English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself (similarity 0.85)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.84)
• English racial ideology predated proletarianization rather than being invented to divide workers. (similarity 0.83)
• The Volksgemeinschaft outcompeted communism by promising upward mobility and instant realization (similarity 0.82)
• Post-1877 elites stratified labor by race to stabilize the wealth pyramid. (similarity 0.82)
• Soviet wage differentials and competition destroyed working-class solidarity (similarity 0.82)
• Race fractures the working classes internally in ways class alone cannot explain (similarity 0.82)
• Postwar racial myths functioned as labor discipline for capital (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Post-1877 racial division of labor was engineered to stabilize capitalist wealth #corroborates (0.95)
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital #expands (0.80)
• Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class #expands (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 267
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #expands (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Abolition of slavery coincided with capitalism’s reorganization toward new labor forms #expands (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1434
• Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. #expands (0.60) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82
• Du Bois concluded slavery and capitalism were systemically linked and periphery drove revolution #corroborates (0.60)
• Slavery was central to capitalism, not a mere primitive precondition #expands (0.55)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #corroborates (0.55)
• Economic-reductionist theories explain racial divisions as byproducts of economic structures #complicates (0.30)