The nation “Portugal” masks a mix of supranational capitalist forces

Evidence

One generally unrecognized but crucial relationship, when we speak in strictly political terms, involved a relatively weak but native feudal ruling class and its more powerful extra-national ruling-class allies. Specifically, this amounted to an alliance between Portugal’s House of Avis, with its neodynastic nobility and bourgeoisie, and a strain of capitalistic aristocracy that had been bred in England by war and civil war, political chaos, and economic recession, and a close connection to an emerging British bourgeoisie. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 523 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Portuguese expansion rested on an alliance with English capitalist aristocracy — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 523; Italian capitalist networks enabled the Portuguese Empire and its slave trade; Italian merchant capital more than politics drove Portugal’s slave-trade role (+5 more)

Related

• Portuguese expansion rested on an alliance with English capitalist aristocracy (similarity 0.90)
• Portugal’s imperial role masks a web of supranational commercial interests shaping African labor exploitation (similarity 0.84)
• The historical agent ‘Portugal’ was really a mix of national and supranational forces (similarity 0.83)
• Italian capitalist networks enabled the Portuguese Empire and its slave trade (similarity 0.83)
• Genoese and Italian capitalists bankrolled the Portuguese slave-trading empire (similarity 0.82)
• Italian merchant capital was indispensable to the birth of the Portuguese Empire (similarity 0.81)
• Anglo-Portuguese bourgeois alliance shaped how the Atlantic slave trade developed (similarity 0.80)
• Genoese capital financed Portugal partly to outcompete Venice (similarity 0.80)
• Portuguese expansion into Africa produced the historical category of the Negro (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Portuguese expansion rested on an alliance with English capitalist aristocracy #corroborates (0.75) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 523
• Italian capitalist networks enabled the Portuguese Empire and its slave trade #corroborates (0.70)
• Italian merchant capital more than politics drove Portugal’s slave-trade role #corroborates (0.65)
• Juridico-political ideology masks the economic’s determinant role under capitalism #corroborates (0.60)
• Genoese merchant families supplied Portugal with admirals from 1317 onward #exemplifies (0.60)
• Capitalist and formally pre-capitalist modes combine in structured dominance. #expands (0.55)
• Plantation slavery combined capitalist and non-capitalist modes in dominance #expands (0.50)