Re: racism (fwd)

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>racism and race exploitation are part of capitalism.  any serious
>anti-capitalist struggle must deal with racism and race exploitation (and
>any serious anti-racist struggle must deal with capitalism).  the
>anti-eurocentric project is a serious part of work to identify the
>ideological support systems of capitalism, and the various modes of
>exploitation that mutually reinforce class exploitation.  maybe it will
>be
>concluded that socialism can be or must be eurocentric.  I don't believe
>that, but the conclusion must be the result of critical and historical
>analysis, not some a priori given. mat

I totally agree. that is why anti-capitalism and anti-racism are still
analytically useful concepts. They express the demands and struggles of
those who are opressed and discriminated by those on top of hierarchy. If
we radically deconstruct these concepts for the sake of some language
pessimism, we are left with no tools for analyzing "structural"
inequalities. As i said,this is the main problem facing post-modernists:
reducing reality to contingencies rather than challenging the system in
its multidimensional totality!

Any serious marxist who is anti-capitalist must be anti-racist and
anti-sexist AND vice versa! One can not be without the other...

Mine