----- Original Message ---- From: c b cb31450 at gmail.com
^^^^^ CB: Britain was enthically homogenous at the primitive accumulation phase of capitalism , too. The racism was in colonialism and the slave trade . Capitalism would not be possible in Iceland without the whole history of colonialism and imperialism which are the heart of White Supremacy, i.e. racism. Iceland , the part, is part of the colonialist/imperialist , global whole. ___________________________________
I don't think the English thought that Britain was ethnically homogeneous at the time -- if nothing else there were Jews and Irishmen and Welshmen and Scotts and Gypsies (all targets of ethnic hostility, I will admit).
Why do colonialism and the slave trade require racism? There's have been lots of imperial and slave-taking societies that had no racist ideology. The Ottomans, the Romans, the Mongols, the Aztecs (I think), etc. It is a historical accident that the European powers at the time of colonialism were taking slaves (almost) exclusively from an area of the world where people looked noticeably different from Europeans. If West Africa had been occupied by people with white skin, would things have been different, or would the slave-traders just have come up with some other ideology to justify it?