[lbo-talk] Understanding _Capital_ (Was Re: barbaric)

[Carrol Cox]

Even non-capitalist regimes, grounded in coercion of labot, cannot
survive when _only_ force remains. Barbara Jeanne Field nicely remarks,
"When only force remains, nothing remains."

The role of direct force in maintaining U.S. capitalism is the crucial
role it plays in maintaining racism. Without the war on drugs/crime and
the war against illegal aliens, the brutal repression of black and brown
communities which provides the ongoing material grounds for racism,
racism would become a much weaker ideological force, with the results
that the conditions of _all_ workers _as_ workers would become more
visible and more widely recognized. That sentence is too fucking long,
but I'm not going to try nwo to revise it.

Carrol