>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.
>
I don't quite understand how worker's oppression would become more visible if racism were to end.
Marx said that socialist revolution in the U.S. could not happen without the race question being settled. That I understand. But why would workers necessarily stop worshipping success (the system that enslaves them) if racism ended?
Joanna