[lbo-talk] corporate rationality

[Miles Jackson]

c b wrote:
> The nature of necessary conditions is that there can be more than one.
> That alienation and competition divides the working class does not
> contradict that White supremacy divides the working class, and that
> both are necessary conditions of the perpetuation of capitalism.
>   

I agree wholeheartedly that white supremacy has been an important 
component of capitalism throughout its historical development. However, 
it's pretty easy for me to imagine a world in which capitalism exists 
without white supremacy.  The extraction of surplus value from labor 
works fine without racial distinctions; there are plenty of other 
ideological tricks to justify capitalism exploitation (e.g., the myth of 
the autonomous individual, as you noted).  Thus I wonder if white 
supremacy is indeed a necessary and inescapable precondition for any 
capitalist society.

Miles