Race-thinking preceded and differs from racism as a full ideology

Evidence

It seems to me that there are reasonable historical grounds for saying that this way of making a political analysis of power relations (which are seen as relations of war between two races that coexist within a single society) does not, or at least not in the first instance, have anything to do with the religious problem. You will find that this analysis was actually formulated, or was being formulated, at the end of the sixteenth century and the beginning of the seventeenth. In other words, the divide, the perception of the war between races predates the notions of social struggle or class struggle, but it certainly cannot be identified with a racism of, if you like, the religious type. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 104 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Preexisting race-thinking gave racism a false veneer of respectability; The perception of war between races predates class struggle and religious racism — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 104; German race-thinking arose as a substitute for missing political nationhood (+9 more)

Related

• The perception of war between races predates class struggle and religious racism (similarity 0.90)
• Abandoning humanity’s common origin makes natural war between races plausible (similarity 0.83)
• Race-thinking emerged across the West before it hardened into racist ideology (similarity 0.83)
• Race-thinking sharpened existing conflicts but never created political categories (similarity 0.82)
• Racism emerges where race discourse meets the state (similarity 0.81)
• Pre-Civil War race-thinking was vague and non-biological (similarity 0.81)
• German race-thinking arose to unite people against foreign domination, unlike French class weapon (similarity 0.80)
• Racism begins when purity supplants race struggle (similarity 0.80)
• Race and racism must be distinguished analytically and politically (similarity 0.80)
• Race-thinking supplied a natural aristocracy to replace the feudal nobility (similarity 0.80)
• Nobility’s conquest doctrine split France into two peoples before race-thinking emerged (similarity 0.79)
• Racism was pan-European public opinion before it was German state doctrine (similarity 0.79)
• German race-thinking emerged to unify and resist foreign rule, not to split the nation. (similarity 0.79)
• Race is a modern construct disguised as ancient, not a premodern condition (similarity 0.79)
• Biological race theory predates Darwin and supported colonialism (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Preexisting race-thinking gave racism a false veneer of respectability #corroborates (0.92)
• German race-thinking arose as a substitute for missing political nationhood #exemplifies (0.82)
• The perception of war between races predates class struggle and religious racism #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 104