The Volksgemeinschaft outcompeted communism by promising upward mobility and instant realization

Evidence

But even more to the point, we have seen that the generic terms “the English working class” or “the English proletariat” mask the social and historical realities that accompanied the introduction of industrial capitalism in England and its Empire. Social divisions and habits of life and attitude that predated capitalist production continued into the modern era and extended to the working classes located in Britain specific social sensibilities and consciousness. The English working class was never the singular social and historical entity suggested by the phrase. An even closer study of its elements—for we have merely reviewed the more extreme case with the Irish—would reveal other social divisions, some ethnic (Welsh, Scottish, and more recently West Indian and Asian), some regional, and others essentially industrial and occupational. The negations resultant from capitalist modes of production, relations of production, and ideology did not manifest themselves as an eradication of oppositions among the working classes. Instead, the dialectic of proletarianization disciplined the working classes to the importance of distinctions: between ethnics and nationalities; between skilled and unskilled workers; and, as we shall see later in even more dramatic terms, between races. The persistence and creation of such oppositions within the working classes were a critical aspect of the triumph of capitalism in the nineteenth century. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 267 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Volksgemeinschaft meant equality of nature, not of rights, for Germans; Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 267; Communists in the early twenties still saw revolution as imminent

Related

• Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class (similarity 0.89)
• Capitalist proletarianization reproduced internal divisions rather than unifying the working class (similarity 0.88)
• Proletarianization created divisions among workers instead of erasing them (similarity 0.87)
• Ethnic divisions within a working class can be exploited to strengthen capitalist rule (similarity 0.85)
• Soviet wage differentials and competition destroyed working-class solidarity (similarity 0.84)
• English racialism predated ruling class divisions and shaped proletarianization itself (similarity 0.84)
• Post-1877 capitalism used differential reward by race to stabilize wealth (similarity 0.82)
• Racial ideology functions as a labor discipline for capital (similarity 0.82)
• Working-class movements accommodated capitalism while theory idealized a revolutionary proletariat (similarity 0.82)
• Modern capitalist societies experience themselves as pluralistic rather than unified (similarity 0.82)
• English racial ideology predated proletarianization rather than being invented to divide workers. (similarity 0.81)
• Capitalism differentiated peoples into racial categories rather than homogenizing them (similarity 0.81)
• Postwar affluence triggered a neoliberal counter-surge rather than classlessness (similarity 0.80)
• Marx observed proletarian division but did not revise his theory (similarity 0.80)
• English workers’ racialized consciousness gave no objective basis for universal class politics (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism triumphed by cultivating divisions rather than erasing them within the working class #responds-to (0.72) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 267