I’m pretty sure that racism exists outside of capitalism also.
I’m going to need some explanation as to how capitalism is the primary source of power for racism, so much so that you cannot be anti-racist without being anti-capitalist also.
It’s not that I disagree with the statement. It’s that the statement takes a massive leap when it says “racism gets its power from capitalism”, and I’m not able to follow.
I need a couple of steps between to fill the gap.
I’m pretty sure that racism exists outside of capitalism also.
And you’d be wrong. Try reading about the history of racism some time.
Why don’t you take the time to provide your sources?
Why do I need to scour all of the existing literature to verify a claim that someone else made that I feel dubious? It’s on the person who posited the initial claim to prove their claim.
After all, my tribe, which is a Native American tribe, hates people that are not Native Americans so much so that if they have a good reason to believe that somewhere back in your genealogy, 150 years, there’s a drop of white blood, you’re considered a white person.
So I have lived experience that throws some shade on the claim that all racism springs from capitalism because my tribe is not capitalistic.
Can you prove me wrong with verifiable external sources?
Racial bigotry and racial prejudice aren’t racism. Racism is essentially white supremacy which was invented to enforce capitalism. The Native Americans who hate other Native Americans didn’t build a global system of tribal superiority with wide ranging systemic oppression of other tribes.
Read The Wretched of the Earth by Franz Fanon
Also: https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/social-sciences-and-humanities/racism-history-concept https://www.versobooks.com/products/2270-racecraft https://www.humanrightscareers.com/issues/who-started-racism/
Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one race or ethnicity over another.
That is specifically what I am talking about. I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Please read past the first sentence of that wikipedia article and the links I posted and Fanon to get an idea of what leftists think about racism so you can participate in informed discussion on a socialist forum. That is the most basic and an incomplete definition of racism and not what racism is to leftists and socialists.
Racism is a tool of capitalism and imperialism to keep people divided and fighting with each other instead of seeing that they have more in common with each other than with billionaires of their same race. It is a divide and conquer tool to keep people from overthrowing the ruling class.
Racism still exists sans capitalism, so how does racism get its power from capitalism? I can see that it becomes a form of turbo-racism where every Tom, Dick, and Harry hates every Abdul, Rahim, and Schlomo, but even if we lived in a communist utopia, there would be a significant portion of the population that hates people because they have a different skin color or a different form of community.
