People like you conflate the idea that Marx is racist in today's terms with the idea that Marx like all of us displays ethnocentric viewpoints, specifically in his case related to the European Enlightenment. Here's some Baudrillard to help you understand. It's not about being woke and calling Marx out, but about seeing how his critique doesn't go far enough. People who go to a certain point, then get nostalgic or dogmatic, are not revolutionaries but conservatives. We have to argue this out, and not just say "You're racist!" "Well you're stupid!"
certain kind of abstract, linear, irreversible finality: a certain model subsequently extended to all sectors of individual and social practice.
Matthew Hill
aware of Necessity, a Law that takes effect only with the objectification of Nature. The Law takes its definitive form in capitalist political economy; moreover, it is only the philosophical expression of Scarcity. Scarcity, which itself arises in the market economy, is not a given dimension of the economy. Rather, it is what produces and reproduces economic exchange. In that regard it is different from primitive exchange, which knows nothing of this "Law of Nature" that pretends to be the ontological dimension of man. 37 Hence it is an extremely serious problem that Marxist thought retains these key concepts which depend on the metaphysics of the market economy in general and on modern capitalist ideology in particular. Not analyzed or unmasked (but exported to primitive society where they do not apply), these concepts mortgage all further analysis. The concept of production is never questioned; it will never radically overcome the influence of political economy. Even Marxism's transcending perspective will always be burdened by counterdependence on political economy. Against Necessity it will oppose the mastery of Nature; against Scarcity it will oppose Abundance ("to each according to his needs") without ever resolving either the arbitrariness of these concepts or their idealist overdetermination by political economy.
TL;DR: Marxism uncritically adopts concepts from the Enlightenment which contain ideological errors. Primarily this is based on a Man/Nature dualism which revolves around "mastering" Nature, a theme which was present in European thought and made worse by Christianity. Instead, there is no separation from Nature, so the fantasy of controlling nature cannot be realized (you can't get out of it to control it from outside).
Reminder that O-bomb-a's black side is his non-American African dad, he was raised by his mother who he described as a "typical white woman" and he went to Harvard. He's only black if your idea of black is skin deep.
Caleb Sanders
None of this matters. The public at large thinks he’s black, therefore he’s black.
Alexander Kelly
Doesn't contradict what I said. Indeed, the public at large has a skin deep idea of race and racism.
Carter Sanders
Are you a race realist?
Henry Young
No shit, race is skin deep at most. It’s a made up concept.
Connor Torres
No, what the fuck? Being a social construct doesn't make it irrelevant. Are you denying that racism is an issue and one that Obama was largely insulated from? He didn't have to live with the lower socioeconomic status that's typical of black Americans descended from slaves, or much of the social repression that goes along with being a part of those communities. At most he had people call him nigger or whatever because he looks black.
