Re: [Marxism] The State of Racism

[Jon Baranov <jonburp@xxxxxxxxx>]

You've just begun to answer your own question, no? Racism makes sense when 
there is a sizable body of workers to "divide and rule". Plus racism provides a 
dependable source of cheap labor, and it may "make sense" to draw on only the 
most desperate workers. Michael Reich wrote a book precisely about how racism 
is profitable at the micro and the macro level.

Sayan Bhattacharyya <ok.president+marxmail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The _individual_ factory owner is better off hiring and paying any
skilled labor they can find, be it black, white, male or female, as
long as the job will get done well.
.......

For big firms, obviously there may be an incentive: their work forces
are large, and maintaining racism helps keep their own work forces
divided. But do smaller firms have this incentive?

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