The Revolution’s class struggles were reinterpreted as race history

Evidence

What you see taking shape here will be just as important in the early nineteenth century: the French Revolution—and the political and social struggles that went on during it—are being reinterpreted in terms of the history of races. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 226

Categorization

• DEFINE: This is a pivot point where racial discourse becomes the grid for reading class struggle — core vocabulary for the Islamophobia scaffold.
• XREF: Directly foreshadows the race-to-class mapping that later readings on colonial biopolitics build on. — connects to: Proletarian-nation rhetoric reframed imperial conquest as class struggle — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 378; The French Revolution was reinterpreted through a history-of-races lens early in the nineteenth century — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 6955; Class struggle derives historically from the earlier discourse of race struggle — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 96 (+5 more)

Related

• The French Revolution was reinterpreted through a history-of-races lens early in the nineteenth century (similarity 0.93)
• Class struggle derives historically from the earlier discourse of race struggle (similarity 0.87)
• Marx derived the idea of class struggle from race-struggle historiography (similarity 0.82)
• The gulf between class struggle and anti-imperialist struggle began to close (similarity 0.80)
• Marx credited French historians for the origins of his class struggle idea (similarity 0.80)
• Late-nineteenth-century racial theory was nearly undisputed in European culture (similarity 0.80)
• The perception of war between races predates class struggle and religious racism (similarity 0.79)
• Race is the lived medium through which class relations are experienced (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Race is the lived medium through which class relations are experienced #expands (0.90) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 637
• Race is the lived modality of class, affecting the whole class. #expands (0.85)
• Comintern orthodoxy narrowed revolutionary class to industrial workers while dismissing colonial masses #responds-to (0.80)
• Marxist class categories froze into a fixed historical image of class #expands (0.80)