> Precisely because it does contain a universalising
> tendency capitalism holds out the image of equality, just as it denies
> it in practice.
not "universalising tendency" perhaps, but certainly we continue to take a political cue from the form of abstract equivalence at work in capitalist production processes: abstract labour, money, etc. one wonders where people think anti-racist movements and concepts emerge from if not from capitalism; which also suggests that there are real limits to how we might conceive of racism (and how to fight it) in the first place, whether it be the principle of equality itself, since all notions of equality presuppose a table of comparability, a universal standard, and in the more common ways of trying to avoid this problem still repeat that universal standard, but relegate it to form rather than content (ie, pluralism).
Angela _________