[lbo-talk] corporate rationality

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Thu Oct 15 11:38:08 PDT 2009


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



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