I have a question here: What If white supremacy, and other equivalents of racism in other areas of the world outside the U.S., are part of what might be called "a ruling class project?" This project may have developed over a course of history and is not directly designed to keep the "marginalized" group in any particular class. Yet it may have the effect of "sorting" the classes in a way that keeps the marginalized group as part of the lower orders and mostly out of the "owning classes." When I say the "owning classes" I simply mean the classes that own the productive resources of that society. I am not limiting myself to primarily capitalist societies in posing this question. But it seems to me that in capitalist societies, in all stages of development, these patterns seem to repeat over and over again and such patterns are shaped to the benefit of the ruling classes. The social oppression of marginalized groups for religious, ethnic, and other reasons is in the toolbox of all ruling classes and has the effect of maintaining the control of the "lower orders" and maintaining the power of the ruling classes.
Is that class reductionism? If so I think to a certain extent I must be a class reductionist, even though I agree that all your examples #1, #2, #3, must defy some class "reductionist theories" it is still we are still dealing with Capitalist Ruling Class oppression. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1004): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1004 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76498133/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
