Racism and Capitalism: A Contingent or Necessary Relationship?

IF 0.9 4区社会学 0 PHILOSOPHY

Historical Materialism-Research in Critical Marxist Theory Pub Date : 2023-06-26 DOI:10.1163/1569206x-bja10009

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Abstract

Anti-racist debate today remains polarised between ‘class reductionist’ (any attempt to address racial disparities reinforces capitalist class relations) and ‘liberal identity’ (disparities in racial representation can be resolved without questioning class inequality) politics. Both positions share a common perspective – racial oppression and class exploitation are the products of distinctive social dynamics whose relationship is historically contingent. This essay is an initial step toward characterising a structurally necessary relationship between capitalism and racial oppression. The essay draws upon Anwar Shaikh and Howard Botwinick’s elaboration of Marx’s political economy, and Ellen Wood’s analysis of the specificity of capitalist imperialism.

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种族主义与资本主义：一种偶然关系还是必然关系？

今天的反种族主义辩论仍然在“阶级还原论”（任何解决种族差异的尝试都会强化资本主义阶级关系）和“自由主义身份”（种族代表性的差异可以在不质疑阶级不平等的情况下解决）政治之间两极分化。这两种立场都有一个共同的观点——种族压迫和阶级剥削是独特社会动态的产物，其关系具有历史偶然性。这篇文章是描述资本主义和种族压迫之间结构性必要关系的第一步。本文借鉴了谢赫和博特维尼克对马克思政治经济学的阐述，以及伍德对资本主义帝国主义特殊性的分析。

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期刊介绍： Historical Materialism is an interdisciplinary journal dedicated to exploring and developing the critical and explanatory potential of Marxist theory. The journal started as a project at the London School of Economics from 1995 to 1998. The advisory editorial board comprises many leading Marxists, including Robert Brenner, Maurice Godelier, Michael Lebowitz, Justin Rosenberg, Ellen Meiksins Wood and others. Marxism has manifested itself in the late 1990s from the pages of the Financial Times to new work by Fredric Jameson, Terry Eagleton and David Harvey. Unburdened by pre-1989 ideological baggage, Historical Materialism stands at the edge of a vibrant intellectual current, publishing a new generation of Marxist thinkers and scholars.