I must say, however, that an effective attack on shitty laws, etc. miight entail a better understanding of why there are shitty laws, etc. In other words, it may not be quite so easy to escape "personal attitudes" as an element in the analysis. (The dismissal of superstructure is retro-Marxism, isn't it?)
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> And shitty school curricula.
>
> Wojtek
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> On Jul 15, 2013 10:18 AM, "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > On Jul 15, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Precisely. To put it differently, racism may explain why guys like
> > > Zimmerman walk free from situations that would put someone with
> different
> > > skin color behind bars, but it does not explain why guys like Martin
> > have
> > > it difficult to find a decent job.
> >
> > "Racism" happens because of shitty laws, shitty employment patterns, and
> > shitty inheritance patterns. Locating it in personal attitudes, or
> reifying
> > it, serves no analytic or political purpose. In this case, SYG laws are a
> > horrible problem, and things like this will happen over & over again. A
> > bunch of leftists jumping up and down screaming (or typing) "white
> > supremacy" won't accomplish a damn thing.
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