Re: [Marxism] Marx and race

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Charles Brown wrote:
> 
> For materialists, deeds are prioritized over words, roughly speaking. 

For _historical_ materialists, fundamental social _relations_ are
prioritized over both particular deeds and words. And one _cannot_ draw
a direct causal line between those abstract relations and particular
deeds or words. Marx & Engels were sometimes wrong -- and they were
being, for the moment, shits when they used racist terminology. That
doesn't affect the importance of their thinking. Most people are shits
at times.

Carrol


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