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Psychoanalysis and Racism

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Isn't Capitalism the Ultimate in Racecraft?

Milton Friedman in capitalism and freedom says the thing is if you just allow capitalism to work, it will eliminate all racial equality because it's not a good. So his point is there's something inherently egalitarian about the capitalist project. It's aligned with Marx's and Engels' idea in the manifesto that under capitalism all that's solid, melts into air. All the firm prejudices get just uprooted because the logic of accumulation becomes the only law.

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