Doug Henwood wrote:
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> On Oct 11, 2009, at 3:30 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
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> > capitalism doesn't need racism, but it does need _racialization_
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> Why? I'm just not convinced. You could just as easily argue that the
> tendency of capitalism is to treat us all as interchangeable parts.
That is true, but it doesn't affect shag's argument if you read the whole rather than picking out one sentence.
You can also pick up the process from Coontz, Fields, or Laqueur."Capitalism" of course is not an agent, but a society in which production is capitalistically organized will generate the relations which generate the sort of ideology that shag describes.
Just because capitalism (as an organization of production)treats us all as interchangeable parts, i.e. as equals, there arises the need to understand why in a world in which all men [sic] are created equal they are so (in material circumstances) so unequal. Read Fields. Debate her arguments. She teaches at Colombia. Get her on your show.
Carrol
Carrol
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