From the archives: Beyond Economism with Nancy Fraser
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What Is Racism in Capitalism?
Racism is a result of the contradictions between, i guess, what you would describe as the political and economic spheres of liberal capitalism. Unlikea feudalism and other forms of ancient slave society, say, capitalism really depends on the idea that the official working class are free individuals. And then so racism is a sort of provisional solution to this contradiction.
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