>It's like racism in the U.S. in the early 20-th Century. There is a basic
>materialist explanation for that racism in general: dividing the working
>class.
That isn't a materialist explanation, that's a tactical explanation.
Bill Bartlett Bracknell Tas
^^^^^
CB: More of a long term strategy than tactic.
However, it is a strategy of the ruling class in the class struggle with the working class. That would make it arch-materialist, about as materialist as one can get. "Materialist" means based in the class struggle or in the case of the witches based in the struggle over control of reproduction.