> Ian says:
>
> > > Let's set aside the long run for the moment. Do white workers gain
> >> _increases in real wages & social programs that outpace rises in
> > > productivity_ by practicing racism _even in the very short term_?
> >>
> >> Yoshie
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> >Wrong question[s], totally.
>
> Why is it "wrong" -- "totally" to boot -- to ask "whether white
> workers gain _increases in real wages & social programs that outpace
> rises in productivity_ by practicing racism _even in the very short
> term_"? How do you prove that it is?
>
> I think white workers benefit from racism _neither in the short nor
> in the long run_, for they don't become less exploited by capital by
> practicing racism.
>
> >What is needed to eradicate racism is the only question Yoshie. Etiological
> >analysis of it's construction is at the "point" of diminishing returns. The
> >moment somebody comes up with an explanation that racism is rational [under
> >capitalism or any other politico-economic system] is the moment we
> should give
> >up reason. Racism cannot be rational in any historico-ontological "context";
> >lets ask different questions.......please.
> >
> >How do we get rid of racism? Institutionally, psychologically etc.....
> >
> >New millennium, new questions,
>
> How do we get rid of racism? That's a _long-standing_ question.
> Marx already said: "Labor in the white skin cannot be free while
> labor in the black skin is branded."
>
> One thing is clear. We can't get rid of racism as long as a good
> number of leftists keep telling white workers _an untruth_ that they
> benefit from racism.
>
> The truth that is in the interest of all workers, including white
> workers, is kept from them not just by commodity fetishism but by an
> incorrect theory of racism promulgated by well-meaning leftists.
>
> Yoshie
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This assumes that there is such a "thing" as a correct theory of racism. When was the last time you saw an article or book saying "hey whitey, racism gives you a great wage premium so hate African Americans, Mexicans, Latinos, the Chinese etc."?
Every hour we spend asking how it got this bad is an hour we don't ask how to stop the madness.
Ian