The Negro problem is economic exploitation, not racial coexistence

Evidence

The Negro problem does not resolve itself into the problem of Negroes living among white men but rather of Negroes exploited, enslaved, despised by a colonialist, capitalist society that is only accidentally white. You wonder, M. Salomon, what you would do “if you had 800,000 Negroes in France”; because for you there is a problem, the problem of the increase of Negroes, the problem of the Black Peril. The Martinican is a Frenchman, he wants to remain part of the French Union, he asks only one thing, he wants the idiots and the exploiters to give him the chance to live like a human being. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 714 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The bourgeoisie that led the development of capitalism were drawn from particular ethnic and cultural groups; the European proletariats and the mercenaries of the leading states from others; its peasants from still other cultures; and its slaves from entirely different worlds. The tendency of European civilization through capitalism was thus not to homogenize but to differentiate—to exaggerate regional, subcultural, and dialectical differences into “racial” ones. As the Slavs became the natural slaves, the racially inferior stock for domination and exploitation during the early Middle Ages, as the Tartars came to occupy a similar position in the Italian cities of the late Middle Ages, so at the systemic interlocking of capitalism in the sixteenth century, the peoples of the Third World began to fill this expanding category of a civilization reproduced by capitalism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The laboring Negro fights from lived need, not ideology — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 819; The Negro problem stems from colonialist capitalist exploitation, not from racial cohabitation. — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 714; Economic structure is necessary but not sufficient to explain race relations (+10 more)

Related

• The Negro problem stems from colonialist capitalist exploitation, not from racial cohabitation. (similarity 0.94)
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. (similarity 0.82)
• The category of the Negro was fabricated in the West, not Africa (similarity 0.82)
• Capitalist expansion pursued racial directions, not the rationalization Marx expected (similarity 0.82)
• Authentic understanding of the Negro requires breaking cultural crystallization (similarity 0.82)
• The Negro’s creation served Western economic and industrial development requirements (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism emerged within feudalism rather than negating it, rooted in racialism. (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalists extracted Black labor while letting African social formations reproduce the supply (similarity 0.80)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them (similarity 0.80)
• The Negro construct erased African history, space, and humanity itself (similarity 0.80)
• Marx’s analysis could not apply to American Blacks without correction for the race problem (similarity 0.79)
• Black emancipation requires more than economic class struggle alone (similarity 0.79)
• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior (similarity 0.79)
• Marx presupposed a coherent racist and imperial ordering of world capitalism (similarity 0.79)
• Older British Marxists assumed race would dissolve once capitalism fell (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The Negro problem stems from colonialist capitalist exploitation, not from racial cohabitation. #corroborates (0.95) — Frantz Fanon, Constance Farrington, Black skin, white masks, 714
• Racism is a hegemonic practice that is articulated with, not necessary to, capitalist formations #complicates (0.70)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them #expands (0.70) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 205
• Capitalism conserving non-capitalist modes produces racial and colonial ideologies. #expands (0.65)
• Economic structure is necessary but not sufficient to explain race relations #qualifies (0.60)
• Racism is not necessary to the functioning of all capitalisms. #complicates (0.60) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 635
• Economic analysis is necessary but not sufficient for explaining racism #qualifies (0.60)
• Racial distinctions operate as active structuring principles, not mere historical residues #complicates (0.60)
• Economic and sociological paradigms of race correct each other’s weaknesses but both remain inadequate #corroborates (0.55)
• The Negro in Europe is made inferior, not self-made inferior #expands (0.50)