Will Shetterly
Sep 17, 2021

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Funny how quick you are to deny the class system in American capitalism.

You are right that we’re not likely to agree on this. Socialists have always been at the front of the fight against racism, but race reductionists have little to no interest in anything other than the idea that the problem is exclusively or primarily racial. I’m with Malcolm X: you can’t have capitalism without racism. The reason for that is the lousy state of class mobility under capitalism. The groups that had little money to begin with will always have little money, and the groups that had a lot of money will always have a lot of money.

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Will Shetterly
Will Shetterly

Written by Will Shetterly

If you’re losing an argument with me and are too proud to admit defeat, please feel free to insult me instead.

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