I don’t see any problem here. Racism existed before capitalism to justify slavery and has a new function after the abolition. In fact, before the abolition, it functioned to divide different oppressed groups, as it does today.
If anything, the meme says that racism was a precondition for capitalism. If capitalism needs racism, of cause racism must be older, otherwise capitalism could not have developed.
I’m not calling the meme a problem. There are people that legitimately hold the position of “racism existed before capitalism, so they have no interplay”. Those are the people I’m preempting.
What about capitalism doesn’t need racism?
Non-Europeans played no role in the European workforce of the industrial revolution and it wasn’t less of capitalism because of that. Capitalism works pretty well exploiting just its own ethnic group.
It’s less about the specific mode of division, and more about pointing out how division serves the ruling class. That’s why intersectionality is important.
Inb4 the “but racism existed before capitalism” crowd
I don’t see any problem here. Racism existed before capitalism to justify slavery and has a new function after the abolition. In fact, before the abolition, it functioned to divide different oppressed groups, as it does today.
If anything, the meme says that racism was a precondition for capitalism. If capitalism needs racism, of cause racism must be older, otherwise capitalism could not have developed.
I’m not calling the meme a problem. There are people that legitimately hold the position of “racism existed before capitalism, so they have no interplay”. Those are the people I’m preempting.
Ok, this implication wasn’t obvious for me and it truly is a stupid take
I’m gonna go to bed before they arrive. Tell them from me that they suck, please.
What about capitalism doesn’t need racism?
Non-Europeans played no role in the European workforce of the industrial revolution and it wasn’t less of capitalism because of that. Capitalism works pretty well exploiting just its own ethnic group.
It’s less about the specific mode of division, and more about pointing out how division serves the ruling class. That’s why intersectionality is important.