On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > I disagree. It's like the contrast between modern slavery in the > southern US (up to 1865) and ancient Roman slavery. The former was > legitimated largely by the fact that the slaves belonged to an > "inferior race." The latter was not: the slaves were mostly people who > came from areas that to the Romans in war. > > If slavery can exist without racism, why not imperialism?
Maybe it can, but the point is that imperialism has never existed without racism. A hypothetical "imperialism without racism" would be an entirely new phenomenon and it is in no way the inevitable consequence of the empowerment of exploited races. -raghu. -- The meek shall inherit the earth, if that's OK with you. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
