BK on Identity

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>CB: Yes, if we think of it as capitalism = wage-labor + specially 
>oppressed labor, then race , nationality and gender in the 
>capitalist epoch are rooted/constituted by the division of labor. 
>Also, strategically, capitalism must have institutionalized , 
>antagonistic divisions between sectors of the working class ( divide 
>and rule). Race , nationality and gender are necessary to the 
>bourgeois mode/relations of production.

We can't fight against the "divide & rule" strategy if we conflate 
the contradiction between capital and labor with the antagonism 
between whites and blacks, etc.  To repeat, our argument should be 
racism is *not* in the interest of white workers, sexism is *not* in 
the interest of male workers, and so on.

Yoshie