[Marxism] Centrality of slavery to rise of capitalism

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

But how does it affect our practice and our current understanding of
the
world how we answer the question posed in the subject line? How would
our understanding of our present differ if we were to say (for
example)
"important but not central"? 

What is the precise  theoretical importance of the question?

Carrol

^^^^
CB:  One specific aspect is that  it focuses Marxists on the problem of
overcoming residential racist segregation in the US as  central or
_very_ important in uniting the working class for class struggle

For practice it gives guides to action for today, right now,  like the
central Communist slogans "Workers of all nations and races , unite" and
"Black and white ,unite and fight "  and "Affirmative action _with
quotas_" which derive from this theory. 




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