[lbo-talk] RE: Activism/Socialism in U.S.

uvj at vsnl.com uvj at vsnl.com
Mon Feb 9 08:58:15 PST 2004


joanna bujes wrote:
>> "My question is about the recent period. Do race and ethnicity remain
>> important tools of bourgeois hegemony even today?"


> I would say they do. The U.S. remains a largely segragated country.
>Suburban life
>(defined by flight from the more integrated cities), which defines life for
>most Americans >(both in and out of the suburbs), is a fact on the ground
>and continues to shape American >consciousness. I have a dim memory that
>Marx once opined that socialism would not be >possible in the U.S. before
it
>resolves the race question. I think he was right.

Why does the US capitalism, the richest, the most powerful and technological country in the world, need to base its rule on a primitive ideology as racism? One can understand if that were the case for less developed/ underdeveloped capitalism society.

Ulhas



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