>And how would Roemer
>counter the related objection that the "divide and conquer" thesis
>requires some enforcement mechanism within the capitalist
>class to make sure that the capitalist all act to do what is in
>their collective interest which is to discriminate when at the
>same time each capitalist would be faced with incentives to
>stop discriminating in order to take advantage of the resulting
>pool of cheaper black (or Hispanic or female etc.) labor?
Big capital in the U.S. now represents itself as being "diverse" and inclusive (as do its media); the Fortune 500 support affirmative action. Why? An illustration of Marx's comment that the better able a ruling class is to absorb the natural leaders of the ruled, the more solid and dangerous its rule?
Doug