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On 1/19/20 1:13 PM, Patrick Bond via Marxism wrote:
On 1/10/2020 6:51 PM, Kevin Lindemann and Cathy Campo via Marxism wrote:
https://peoplesworld.org/article/capitalism-needs-racism-a-response-to-the-nyt-1619-project/
Actually, there's such a big theoretical problem here, as to whether
capitalism 'needs' racism, or can jettison even its most profound
manifestations - such as apartheid - when more effective systems of
surplus extraction emerge. The South African case is exemplary, and the
main writers on this have tried over several decades to specify when
racism is functional, and when it creates contradictions that become
debilitating. If you're interested in identifying the contingent versus
the necessary, have a look at Ben Magubane's historical work, e.g.
http://unrisd.org/80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpAuxPages)/63265CAFF973018D80256B6D005785D1/%24file/dmaguban.pdf
This takes us a bit far afield. The big question prompted by Project
1619 is not so much about how surplus value is extracted but over the
dynamics of American history. WSWS and its historian allies both
exaggerate the democratic character of the 1776 revolt and minimize the
importance of slavery in the rise of American capitalism. As I pointed
out in a piece on this, one of the articles that irked Wood and
McPherson, two of WSWS's allies, was based on the work of Sven Beckert,
Edward Baptist et al who come out of the Eric Williams tradition. If
there was an afterlife, I'd like to think of Jim Blaut up on a cloud
somewhere grinning at the pendulum swinging in his direction at last.
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