The post-Reconstruction abandonment of Black labor led toward world war

Evidence

[T]here began to rise in America in 1876 a new capitalism and a new enslavement of labor… . … The world wept because the exploiting group of New World masters, greed and jealousy became so fierce that they fought for trade and markets and materials and slaves all over the world until at last in 1914 the world flamed in war. The fantastic structure fell, leaving grotesque Profits and Poverty, Plenty and Starvation, Empire and Democracy, staring at each other across World Depression, (p. 634) But rather than seeing this process as inevitable due to the contradiction between the modes of production and the relations of production, Du Bois argued that it was made possible by the ideologies of racism, and, to a lesser extent, individualism. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1080

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The end of Reconstruction coincided with the dawn of modern racism — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 890