georgephillip
Senator
If Marxist professor RD Wolff is correct when he claims, "(c)apitalism's supporter use and benefit from a racism whose practice and consequences should be blamed on capitalism itself," then it follows "(r)acism persists in no small part because its benefits to capitalism outweigh its costs."
http://www.democracyatwork.info/how_capitalism_and_racism_support_each_other
"We know how and why racism worked often to support slavery around the world and especially in the early United States. Masters endorsed and promoted ideas that justified slaves as subordinated because they were an inferior race. Racist ideology also sometimes supported feudalism by dividing lords and serfs into different races. Indeed, some early capitalist systems likewise racially distinguished employers from employees..."
"Certain population groups -- conceived as races -- were deemed underdeveloped, incapable, irrational and/or psychologically disqualified in relation to capitalism's productive rigors. Such presumed inferiority was then offered as an explanation for why people of some races were rarely employers and, among employees, were those last hired and first fired, poorly paid, ghettoized etc."
No one claims capitalism is the only cause or source of US racism, but ignoring or minimizing its role only perpetuates its existence in the "free" world.
http://www.democracyatwork.info/how_capitalism_and_racism_support_each_other
"We know how and why racism worked often to support slavery around the world and especially in the early United States. Masters endorsed and promoted ideas that justified slaves as subordinated because they were an inferior race. Racist ideology also sometimes supported feudalism by dividing lords and serfs into different races. Indeed, some early capitalist systems likewise racially distinguished employers from employees..."
"Certain population groups -- conceived as races -- were deemed underdeveloped, incapable, irrational and/or psychologically disqualified in relation to capitalism's productive rigors. Such presumed inferiority was then offered as an explanation for why people of some races were rarely employers and, among employees, were those last hired and first fired, poorly paid, ghettoized etc."
No one claims capitalism is the only cause or source of US racism, but ignoring or minimizing its role only perpetuates its existence in the "free" world.