[lbo-talk] corporate rationality

[Miles Jackson]

c b wrote:
> ^^^^^
> CB: Respectfully,  this is, as you say an imagining. So far, in fact,
> five hundred years of capitalism have not existed without white
> supremacy. Based on the empirical evidence, and the theory of great
> divider of the world working class, I conclude as I say.
>   

We have one historical case to analyze here, so it seems a little 
strange to extrapolate from the last 500 years of human history to all 
possible histories.  Capitalism is the product of a series of historical 
accidents; if it had developed under different sociohistorical 
conditions, it would be perpetuated by a different set of ideological 
tropes and social practices.  There's nothing inevitable or necessary 
about actually existing capitalism or the ideology that supports it.  
(--Perhaps just file this under "there are more things in heaven and 
earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy".)

Miles