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156 Capital & Class G 55 conscious determinations but to identify the material conditions properly. Mountains will melt before the wage struggle explains racism. Racism, a political phenomenon, is a material means of maintaining world imperialist domination. It is the only way this domination can be maintained. The false appearance that capitalism governs by consent is a fetishisation of national boundaries, a product of artificial conditions sustained in the metropolis by the superexploitation of the rest of the world. References
Cherry, B. (1989) Reply to Shulman, in Review of Radical Political Economics 21(4). __________ (1988) Shifts in Radical Theories of Inequality, in Review of Radical Political Economics 20(23). Engels, F. (1970) The origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, in K. Marx and F. Engels Selected Works. Lawrence & Wishart, London. Marx, K. (1977) A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy, Preface. Progress Publishers, Moscow. Marx, K. and F. Engels (1970a) The Communist Manifesto, in Selected Works. Lawrence & Wishart, London. __________ (1970b) Selected Works. Lawrence & Wishart, London. __________ (1975) Selecled Correspondence. Progress Publishers, Moscow. Shulman, Steven (1989) Controversies in the Marxian Analysis of Racial Discrimination, in Review of Radical Political Economics 21(4).
Capitalism remains the world dictatorship of the minority over the majority by the open and violent denial of political rights to the majority, starting with the right to live where you choose. Its ideological expression, racism, is the inhuman doctrine that the majority of the world is not human and has no rights. This is an international culture of repression and any attempt to understand it within a single nation, above all the most powerful in the world, is doomed to failure. Leimans well-meaning book is a laboratorypure proof.
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