[PEN-L:3631] Re: Re: Race as a "construct"

[Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood wrote:

>  'Just as the creation of white wealth pushed
> Blacks down', Kovel writes, 'so must the presence of degraded black bodies
> have exerted a continual stimulation to the continued pursuit of abstracted
> money."'

Doug, could you make this intelligible. "Must" indeed. This is sheer assertion
worth of a member of MIM. I can't see an ounce of empirical or analytic
evidence for it other than pure subjective daydreaming on the part of
the writer.

Other parts of your long post need careful consideration, but this is
pure moonshine.

The part about the creation of "white wealth" pushing blacks down is
intelligible but probably not historically defensible. "White wealth," forsooth.

And it didn't push blacks down but rather the possessors of that wealth
extracted it from the labor of blacks. Do you really think that the plantation
owners of the south were more interested in producing white supremacy
than cotton and rice. That's what this passage would suggest.

I guess Timpanaro had it right on one point. There is one point of unanimous
agreement among western marxists: Freud is infallible.

Carrol