[PEN-L:8716] re: Marx and 19th century racism

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Unless we think of racism as a set of material practices, not just an ideology.

In _Capital_, Marx said that slavery and colonialism were the chief momenta of the primitive accumulation of capitalism; and regarding the U.S. that labor in the white skin will not be free while labor in black skin is branded.

Racism is a necessary condition , a without-which-not, a but for cause of capitalism. Capitalism is a world system and there has never been capitalism without racism.

Charles Brown

>>> Rod Hay <rodhay@xxxxxxxxxxx> 07/01/99 12:58PM >>>
This of course, is an idealist proposition. That the idea of racism lead to
imperialism. This runs directly counter to all Marxist or materialist
explainations. It is of course also a racist proposition. But we can't
discuss that here.


----Original Message Follows----
From: "Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I submit that imperialism is causally linked to racism.  When a European
nation
appropriates European territories with European population, its occupational
policies are very different than those on non-European territories with
non-European population.



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