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For example, we can understand the transition from Reconstruction-era
institutions to Jim Crow as a change in the nature of the capitalist racial
formation, rooted partly in requirements of capitalism, but without reductionism
or economism.
Denying that the Enslavement Industry was "backward" in the sense of
unprofitable or less profitable does not mean there are no contradictions.
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CB: Agree with Mat.
We might see Jim Crow as a sublation of the enslavement industry and trade. In Jim
Crow, the industrial bourgeoisie, soon to be imperialist bourgeoisie, overcame the
aspects of the peculiar institution which contradicted with the doubly free/"free"
labor institution, and preserved some of the aspects of slavery that were an advantage
to all of the capitalist mode, especially the division of the working class between
white and black. The latter is a political and not economistic or reductionist or
vulgar materialist explanation of what was preserved from the enslavement division of
the previous historical phase.
