Conclusion by most radical intellectuals here after several false starts: the apartheid-capitalism bedfellow relationship was "contingent" not "necessary." But that too doesn't satisfy. SA capitalism is still unbelievably racist, but unevenly so.
I think many of us still search for a coherent Line on this.
Patrick
On 23 Dec 99, at 10:57, Doug Henwood wrote:
> 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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