jim wrote: >it's true that these change. But my presumption is that racist and sexist >practices change due to impacts from capitalism which (1) disrupt the >power of the dominators and/or (2) strengthen the struggles of the dominated. > >Why? because racist and sexist practices aim to produce specific use-values >for the dominating groups. These are typically use-values that cannot be >accumulated. In Marxian terms, it's a matter of C - M - C, production and >social relations for use. > >On the other hand, capitalism is a process of M - C - M', where M' > M. >Money can be accumulated without limit (as long as crises don't intervene), >as can the kinds of use-values that capitalists amass (machinery, >factories, etc.) jim, i am unclear on how you arrive at this distinction. are you saying that sexism and racism are not inherent to the social organisation of the extraction of s-v? angela
