On Nov 1, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote:
> Er, Doug, diversity ≠ a "race- and gender-neutral capitalism". The
> liberal
> bourgeoisie might aspire, one day, toward this chimerical version of
> capitalism in labour is not colour-coded or gender-stratified, but
> it is
> realistic enough not to actually attempt to achieve this.
But it's becoming less and less so, especially on the gender end. There's a large black professional class now, women all over the professions too - and a considerable black political class as well. Intra-black income distribution is more unequal than intra-white. Of course, reality is a lot less identity-neutral than propaganda, but there's some truth to the propaganda.
Not sure what you mean by not actually attempting to achieve this, since big capital supports affirmative action politically and practices it aggressively within their own human resource departments.
> 'Diversity' is what we get in the indefinite interim between the
> present and
> the promised land of a non-racist, non-sexist capitalism: the
> spectacular
> incorporation of some women and African Americans into upper middle
> class
> positions.
I live in a neighborhood where it's more real than spectacular. Should I tell my neighbors that they're phantasms?
Doug