RE: [Marxism] Marxism and the Roots of Whiteness

["Calvin Broadbent" <calvinbroadbent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is not true that Lenin was totally silent about the racial dynamics of
colonial rule.

JOHN MUNRO WROTE:

> In an equally representative essay, Lenin's outline of imperialism situates
> empire-building as a response to the exigencies of finance capital, but is
> totally silent about the racial dynamics of imperial rule.

MARK LAUSE WROTE:

> ...so if someone was to deflect a discussion by calling someone else on
> the list of being a sheep-stealing, cattle-mutilating child molester, we
> should tolerate it because--although groundless in the specific case,
> "it is by no means always such...."

As a Marxist, do you place sheep-stealing and child molestation in the same
heuristic field as institutional racism and white skin privilege? More's the
pity.

MARK LAUSE WROTE:

> Do you seriously think that unsubbing Carlos for banding about
> intellectually lazy and personally dishonest charges of "white
> privilege" is an attempt "to exclude this vocabulary from the Marxist
> idiom"?  If you're serious about that, you are not serious about reading
> the content of other posts.  But, if you're not seriously about it, why
> are you saying it anyway?

Eh? The medication is not working.

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