--- On Sun, 10/11/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> I gotta agree with you on this. Michaels' original point -
> that big capital has entirely assimilated the diversity
> agenda, a point to which the entire Obama phenomenon is
> related, and how a lot of the received wisdom about how
> capitalism "needs" racism is badly in need of updating - has
> been lost in all this effort to prove him an asshole, or to
> search his book for incriminating passages.
>
If capitalism needs racism, then capitalism should be impossible in an ethnically homogenous society, such as Iceland.