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The argument here is racism and sexism will never go away so long as capitalism is our economic system. Racism and sexism are too useful to the capitalist.

Phil Rockstroh, in the article below starts with this comment, "Under capitalism, the activity will be commodified. Sexuality is deemed a 'human resource.' And, as is the case with the finite resources of all things on planet earth, designated as fodder for exploitation by ruthless profiteers."

But the real reason the "isms" will not go away is found below!

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For the maintenance of a colonized order to be maintained, empathy must be denuded, fear and antipathy of the alien other must be perpetuated thereby obstructing any inclination towards mutual respect, and incipient feelings of affinity between the tribe granted a favoured, dominant position and the tribes subjugated into positions of low status. Alliances among the exploited would prove dangerous to the elites whose fortunes are depend...See More
Chalky Ha! Interesting, that!
Oct 23, 2017
T.E.C. - Iowa I do not know what the point is! I found the article over at commondreams.org. Yet, the interesting argument is still that "racism and sexism will never go away so long as capitalism is our economic system."

Maybe posters like Chalky should actually write something on the issue at hand.

Worse, the article was written by Phil Rocks...See More
Oct 24, 2017


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