[Marxism] Marx and race

["Charles Brown" <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Lause 

I find this "materialist" explanation of the use of racial terms by Marx and
Engels unpersuasive.  Surely, every part of a modern capitalist economy is
ultimately connected to everything other part of the economy.

Rather than implying that this can be explained by the connections of Marx
and Engels to slavery, it seems far more persuasive to me to say it was
their being so divorced from the realities of African slavery that allowed
for their episodic verbal callowness.

Certainly, there were plenty of Yankee textile capitalists funding
antislavery work despite the "materialist" association with the industry.

ML


^^^^^
CB: No, not _explained_.  Just if somebody is complaining about their words,
one might say , well, you really might complain about their deeds. 

Myself, I'm not complaining about their deeds. When it counted , they were
against slavery.





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