>"At home", the working class is
>majorly divided. This is what capitalism "needs".
This makes sense, and it's a different statement than "capitalism needs racism."
^^^^^ CB: I'm glad it makes sense to you.
I'm not "married" to the word "needs" . I am "married" to the logic I laid out, i.e. that White supremacy is a necessary condition of capitalism. Capitalism is majorly divided at home by White supremacy. But for White supremacy, no capitalism.
I'm not sure from your statement above ( "different than "capitalism needs racism") if you are saying that the major division of the working class at home is not a racist division, a White supremacist division ?
What is the purpose of using words like "need" or "necessary condition" ? We are trying to figure out how to end capitalism, no ? If we can get rid of the necessary conditions of capitalism we can get rid of capitalism. So, the struggle to end White supremacy is a critical and necesary struggle in ending capitalism.
I am open to other theories on ending capitalism, but so far, Marx and Engels are the source of the best theory. They emphasized that unity of the working class of all nations and nationalities is necessary (Workers of the all nations, unite). Race is a sort of aggravated form of nationality. In the US, it is especially important in keeping the working class divided. So, this hypothesis on racial unity as necessary for the revolution, is basically my accepting their theory of how to win the struggle for socialism in the US and world.
There are probably other necessary conditions of capitalism , like extreme individualist philosophies rife in the population. In a certain sense, the greatest divider of the working class in the US is individualism, "rugged" and otherwise. Wage-labor is a necessary and definitional condition of capitalism.
I use "White supremacy" ,because Whites and "Coloreds" are not equally responsible for the racial division or "racialization" that shag mentions. White people have more responsibility than Coloreds for the racial divide in the working class. They have more responsibility in the struggle to end racism, unite the working class and end capitalism. They don't have _all_ the responsibility,but they have more responsibility.
No doubt, this claim of greater White responsibility for ending the racial divisions is controversial here and among White people in general (smile). But I'm not Obama (smile)