Re: Staggering death rate for pregnant Black women

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, sure, and , of course, this becomes only a semantic problem. I use "racism" to refer to both the socio-economic structures and prejudice consciousness.  Now I even say that racism/colonialism is as definitive of the mode and relations of production and division of labor of capitalism as wage-labor.

Capitalism = wage-labor + racism (in the sense of relations of production).

"Racism" is part of the infrastructure of capitalism. Prejudices are reflections of infrastructure in superstructure

Referencing the discussion of not treating Marxism as a religion, this is non-dogmatic proposal.

Charles Brown

>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx> 08/30/99 04:29PM >>>
Charles Brown wrote:

>Why is it that your range of rational approaches a priori eliminates
>racism as a possible part of the explanation ?

Instead of calling it "racism," which you could say locates the
problem in attitudes, why not call it a racialized system of
stratification, which not only has the virtue of taking up a lot more
syllables, but also locates the problem at the level of a system
larger than any of us. A system that shapes are attitudes, that makes
us personally racist.

If Wojtek is arguing that what we call race has no bearing on U.S.
social life, I've got to wonder what country, no what planet, he's
living on.

Doug