Who Killed Vincent Chin? (was Barkley on WTO, etc)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Dec 23 07:57:45 PST 1999


Charles Brown wrote:


>CAPITALISM is racist to the core, always has been.

Does it have to be? If we're supposed to be paid according to our marginal product, isn't discrimination opposed to basic capitalist principles? I really don't know the answer to this, but it seems to me you could argue there are anti-racist tendencies within capitalism too, and to declare it as essentially racist is to overstate the case.

Doug



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