Share Funny Videos, Images, Memes, Quotes and more

2432 readers

45 users here now

#funny

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

laurabrown00@lemmy.ml

1122

The myth of black capitalism (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by Confidant6198@lemmy.ml to c/funny@lemmy.ml

136 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not to imply that ethnic/cultural tensions never existed before in history, but capitalism created racism as a tool of oppression, and of pitting working class people against each other.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

capitalism created racism as a tool of oppression

Except that is simply not true. Capitalism is far more recent that racism, unless of course you define capitalism as just "everything bad". Racism exist because of tribalism and collectivism, capitalism is a recent individualist system- and individualism amongst governments is fairly recent.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am not defining capitalism as just everything bad, and capitalism is not as recent as you think. You may be thinking of industrial capitalism, which is a more recent development.

Historical Foundations of Race

American society developed the notion of race early in its formation to justify its new economic system of capitalism, which depended on the institution of forced labor, especially the enslavement of African peoples.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago

I am not defining capitalism as just everything bad, and capitalism is not as recent as you think.

No that's pretty recent, racism is millennia old. Furthermore, yes mixed economies exist, actually now they're basically the only thing that exists.

American society developed the notion of race early in its formation to justify its new economic system of capitalism, which depended on the institution of forced labor, especially the enslavement of African peoples.

I disagree that it was capitalism that needed racism to be justified, since slavery is anti-capitalistic. But yes, fake "racial science" was used to justify slavery, that however was not the origin of racism. Roman and Greek and many other empires used ethnic/racial division to justify their oppression. Even the Mongols whose empire was "cool and accepting" by ancient empire standards still had strong sentiments of a Mongol race being different from others.