White Men & Freedom Essential to Capitalism

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Nov 19 14:34:24 PST 2000


"Christopher B. Hajib-Niles" wrote:


> hope for america begins when significant numbers of "whites" refuse the identity and act accordingly.

There is (some) hope for significant numbers of white workers to join in struggles to change the objective conditions which generate racism as an ideology. But any politics that focuses on individual choices re "identity" is utterly empty. It merely repeats the empty moralizing of *Paradise Lost*, which holds that there can be no social change until people change. But people won't change until after social change occurs. An impossible antimony. See the third thesis on Feuerbach.

Carrol



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