Reconstruction was the hinge where world capitalism assumed its modern shape.

Evidence

With regard to the first issue—the relationship between the destruction of slavery and the emergence of modern capitalism and imperialism—Du Bois argued that the American Reconstruction period was the historical moment in the developing world system. This was the moment when world capitalism assumed the character that would persist into the twentieth century: — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1076

Categorization

Category: Connection Points

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• Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction revised capitalism, consciousness, and organization theory. (similarity 0.86)
• Black Reconstruction marked Du Bois’s turn to Marxist-inflected theoretical history. (similarity 0.84)
• Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction revised Marx’s theory of revolution around mass action (similarity 0.83)
• Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction advanced a mass-action theory of history diverging from Marx. (similarity 0.82)
• Du Bois grounded Reconstruction’s fall in economic class forces. (similarity 0.82)
• Black Reconstruction marked Du Bois’s first break with the Black elite he belonged to (similarity 0.82)
• Modern capitalism emerged only within the framework of the evolving western state (similarity 0.82)
• The Black bourgeoisie’s class interests diverged from Black labor during Reconstruction (similarity 0.81)
• The post-Reconstruction abandonment of Black labor led toward world war (similarity 0.81)
• Slavery was systemic to modern capitalism, not an historical aberration. (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism integrated Blacks into production while shielding them from bourgeois ideology (similarity 0.81)
• Abolition of US slavery relocated capital to colonial slave agriculture globally (similarity 0.80)
• American slavery’s nineteenth-century expansion foreshadowed global capitalist development. (similarity 0.80)
• Du Bois’s critique of labor hardened from warning into indictment (similarity 0.80)
• Du Bois read the 1930s Depression and the slavery crisis as analogous capitalist transformations (similarity 0.80)