Supranationalist class identity among English workers retreated before nationalism
Evidence
In the political field, nationalism is the fact against which the Marxist theory breaks itself. Here is a force which has proved definitely stronger in the modern world than the class struggle which for orthodox Marxists makes the essence of history. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Thatcherism fused free-market individualism with ethnic nationalism and authoritarian policing; Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 234; English nationalism displaced class solidarity after Chartism’s defeat. (+6 more)
Related
- English nationalism displaced class solidarity after Chartism’s defeat. (similarity 0.92)
- Racially conscious working-class nationalism emerged from English class formation (similarity 0.88)
- English workers’ internationalist class identity retreated into nationalism before the 1840s (similarity 0.87)
- World War I revealed nationalist loyalties overriding international worker solidarity (similarity 0.85)
- English workers abandoned supranationalist class identity for protonationalism by the 1830s (similarity 0.85)
- Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world (similarity 0.85)
- English workers gained labor-aristocracy privileges within a world system (similarity 0.83)
- English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself (similarity 0.83)
- Germany and England objectified class struggle through different institutional routes (similarity 0.83)
- English workers’ racialized consciousness gave no objective basis for universal class politics (similarity 0.82)
- English nationalism displaced international class solidarity among workers after 1850. (similarity 0.82)
- Free-trade agitation united British working and middle classes across class lines (similarity 0.82)
- English racial order prevented workers from separating class universality from racial particularism (similarity 0.82)
- The gulf between class struggle and anti-imperialist struggle began to close (similarity 0.82)
- An international class must nationalise itself to lead nationally-rooted social strata (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- English nationalism displaced class solidarity after Chartism’s defeat.
#corroborates(0.90) - Nationalism proved stronger than the class struggle in the modern world
#expands(0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 362 - World War I revealed nationalist loyalties overriding international worker solidarity
#exemplifies(0.70) - English racial order prevented workers from separating class universality from racial particularism
#complicates(0.60)