The Anglo-Boer War pitted agrarian theology against industrial capitalism

Evidence

The Anglo-Boer War was fought over control: of the source of gold; over returns on capital investment; over inserting the region into globalizing modernity; over laboring conditions, skilling and deskilling; and over competing conceptions of the racial. The boers and their political representation stood for the ancien régime of racial naturalism, inherent inferiority, and extended enslaveability. British political representatives and Randlords saw themselves by contrast as committed to modernization and industrializing progress, post-emancipation racial historicism, and market forces of demand and supply for educable free labor. The latter was seen as the surest way to depress wages even of skilled labor given the potential abundance of workers. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1463 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Anglo-Boer War pitted racial naturalism against racial historicism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1463; The Anglo-Boer war was framed as a clash of competing secular theologies. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1477; British colonial racism framed itself as progressivist educability versus boer naturalism — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1394

Broader Connections

• The Anglo-Boer War pitted racial naturalism against racial historicism #complicates (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1463