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vulgar workerism π
Racism, among other bigotries, is a tool inherent to the superexploitation of colonized people (internally and externally) and inherent to the redistribution of superprofits to the privileged racial group. Imperialism literally can't work without racism and it is actually impossible to eliminate racial disparities once capitalism has entered its highest stage. Structural racism exists because its a requirement.
Anti-racism can't end inequality, but what the author seems to miss is that anti-racism is itself an inherent part of class struggle.
I haven't read the paper the author is talking about in that section, but that sounds like the most pudding brained nonsense I've ever heard. That's viewing capitalism as a frictionless, smooth concept that floats in a void. They're saying it's possible to neatly remove racism from capitalism? Yeah maybe in an alternate reality where the past 500 years didn't happen, problem is we live on Earth where racism is baked into capitalism inherently. It's already in there and it's not getting dislodged without overthrowing the whole thing at the same time.
Ok, I think I kinda get where this person is coming from. For some reason they're taking neoliberals seriously. It's entertaining the very idea that the neoliberal agenda of eliminating racial disparity from capitalism is achievable and is thus a concept even worth considering for more than three seconds. Yeah except neoliberalism as a project is implicitly tied to warmongering and immiseration of the global south. It's an ideology that western austerity and exploitation of poor nations will exist in perpetuity. Neoliberals claim there's no racism baked into their absolutely goofy ideas because they're convinced that African children working in a coltan mine is good for both western countries and the African children. They're convinced this arrangement is somehow not racist because they're not as vocally vulgar as western conservatives, but they still want cheap labor and seem to want that cheap labor contained to Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, etc.
There really needs to be a new standard for if a person still has racist wiring in their head. It should extend to their international sympathies. If a person's racism kicks back into gear once you're on another side of a national border, they shouldn't be taken seriously or their claims considered. Consider how many liberals may vocally oppose domestic racism, and then all of that evaporates when they speak about Arabs, or where precious metals come from, or anything that happens in China. Apparently this Adolph Reed guy has some level of respect attached to his name?
In my experience, a lot of liberals ARE taking themselves seriously and are actually trying to create a capitalism where the bourgeois "looks like America". Of course it won't work the way they think it will, but a real attempt is being made
Just remembering there used to be a guy on the old sub who was absolutely obsessed with Adolph Reed and saying weird /r/stupidpol shit. I think he was the same guy who said that university students are the exploiters of their professors.
It seems like they make the same mistakes the sections of the Second International made when it came to national rebellions. They want pure social revolutions, ignoring the fact that in a colonized country, the social revolution is in part a national struggle. Now the national struggle can separate itself more or less from the social one, or at least attempt to in important decisions.