--- On Sun, 10/11/09, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 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.
This only makes sense in a society in which certain "races" are already disproportionately represented in different social positions. In the real world, the reason for this inequality is historical racism (at least in the US), that is, slavery and Jim Crow, which preceded the inequality.
Note that the social role of blacks during slavery was not capitalist. They were not wage-earners. They were serfs. The social role of a master to his slaves was not capitalist either. This ideology (racism) is rooted in feudal relations, not capitalist ones.