在20年代到40年代,许多学者参与了阿非利卡民族主义理论的制定。后来(1975年至1978年)南非总统尼古拉斯·约翰内斯·迪德里克斯(Nicolaas Johannes Diederichs)在1936年出版的《世界民族主义与国际主义的关系》一书中,通过新加尔文主义神学阐述了南非白人的民族主义意识形态。
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^O'Meara, Dan. THINKING THEORETICALLY?. Paper presented to the Inaugural Conference of the Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust. 1–2 April 1997 [1 October 2008]. (原始内容存档于10 October 2008).: "...responding to the 'pauperisation and domination' of Afrikaners by what the interpreters variously labelled as the 'British' or 'Jewish' 'capitalistic system', volkskapitalisme explicitly set out to "mobilise the volk to capture control of this foreign [capitalist] system and adapt it to our national character". This boiled down to a concerted programme to mobilise the savings of the volk to finance existing and new Afrikaner undertakings."
^O'Meara, Dan. THINKING THEORETICALLY?. Paper presented to the Inaugural Conference of the Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust. 1–2 April 1997 [1 October 2008]. (原始内容存档于10 October 2008).: "...responding to the 'pauperisation and domination' of Afrikaners by what the interpreters variously labelled as the 'British' or 'Jewish' 'capitalistic system', volkskapitalisme explicitly set out to "mobilise the volk to capture control of this foreign [capitalist] system and adapt it to our national character". This boiled down to a concerted programme to mobilise the savings of the volk to finance existing and new Afrikaner undertakings."