[Marxism] against diversity

[Aaron Aarons]

Just sticking to the racism issue for a moment, it's clear that limited victories over *formal* white supremacy have gone hand-in-hand with the strengthening of *real* white supremacy. This is most blatantly obvious in the case of South Africa, where formal racial equality has been accompanied by a sharp increase in real racial *inequality* and, in fact, an absolute as well as relative decline in the material conditions of the Black masses.

It is not the "the real (albeit very partial) victories over racism and sexism" -- victories that made the Clinton and Obama campaigns possible -- that have been victories for neoliberalism, but, again leaving aside the women's issue, the ability of the ruling class to reduce the Black struggle to a struggle for formal equality rather than for the betterment of the lives of the majority of Blacks that has been neoliberal capitalism's victory.

I leave aside the women's issue because it is complicated by the fact that most women are partnered with men, and so the living conditions of women are more tied to those of men than those of Blacks are tied to those of whites.

 - Aaron

>From: "Joaquin Bustelo" <jbustelo at gmail.com>
>Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:39:28 -0400
>
>From MR is quoted: "[I]t is exploitation, not discrimination, that is the
>primary producer of inequality today.... This is also why the real (albeit
>very partial) victories over racism and sexism represented by the Clinton
>and Obama campaigns are not victories over neoliberalism but victories for
>neoliberalism."
>
>"Victories for Neoliberalism" -- It is refreshing to see the (real) politics
>of (very many) white radicals proclaimed so forthrightly.
>
>Joaquin