Proletarians hating other proletarians.
How does Racism come about from a Marxist perspective?
It benefits the ruling class for the proles to be divided. It's been that way since Bacons rebellion. Now we have an underclass composed mostly of black people, and it's really easy to shift the blame of crime to race, rather than poverty.
okay okay i'll translate it into marxist lingo for you, lets see if i remember my ☭TANKIE☭
capital turns all kinds of labour into abstract labour, increasingly all people have these jobs that are fundamentally more and more the same, now the equality of labour is bad for capital since it creates class conciousness (it's easier to see that you are being exploited if there is fundamental difference between you and the guy who exploits you), so capital needs to find other ways of dividing labout up, usually this is in the form of hierarchies, creating an administrative class that does not own means of production, but that it nevetheless earns far more that what value they produce, this works in all kinds of ways, by giving people the hope that if they work they'll earn more, by blaming people making their misery it their own responsability, and you know by literally diving people up so that is in the interest of some workers to side with capital , but at the turn of colonialism a good division to create is racism
The third reply is literally the textbook Marxist analysis of American racism you absolute bozo.
Step number one: Stop thinking like a jew.
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Europe basically invented race so that they could justify invading everywhere. It stuck around beyond its use, I think it will eventually fade away once the effects of imperialism and slavery fade away.
Or just stop think with spooks.
*trotskyist
It was a weak justification of American slavery and European imperialism, and currently performs the same function towards the economic disenfranchisement of racial minorities. People universally try to come up with narratives explaining their behavior even if it is immoral or otherwise irrational. This includes social systems and their inequalities. The base determines the superstructure, etc. Much easier to put the struggles of African American communities up to their supposed racial qualities than to understand that these are symptoms of their disadvantaged position within our society, and thereby acknowledge the need for radical social change.
This is technically correct, but sadly those effects aren't going to fade away until we end capitalism. Instead we should expect racism to continue making a return, since it justifies the segregation of the west on our now globalized planet.
Why do people call me a Trot like it's somehow gonna insult me
I'm using a fucking Trot flag, clearly I don't think it's insulting