On Marxline you wrote"
>Melvin,
>The shortest answer to all you say in these many, many posts is that "race" is a >historical category. Basically, my answers will focus on that. You are wrong when >you assert, argue, assume, insist, write at length, that race is only a biological and >not a hist
Both 'purely' natural (biological) and social theories of race are wrong
(though if they are the only available the social is certainly
preferable, imo). The reason why the purely social theory is incomplete
is because of the "physiognomic rule" -- physiognomic traits are
biologically inherited.
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From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> You are absolutely wrong. I assert that race is an ideological
category existing in the superstructure without a material reality.
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Amen.
Ian
“Black and white, unite and fight!” is extremely disheartening to a man that believes in “Proletarians of the World Unite!, and “Workers and Oppressed People of the World Unite!,” which appears to perhaps be historically obsolete, given our current stage in the development of capital world wide.
hat it isn't
"real". Or that just because someone is anti-racist that they do not
benefit from their "whiteness" in a white supremacist society.
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