You know I thought that people like Baudrillard or Fisher or Zizek (long live the drip) had figured out postmodern Capitalism in the 80's, but I guess it's actually the fucking Civil War guy who really gets it. R*ddit libs and getting the wall, name a better duo.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    You can get into a long chicken-egg argument over the role racism and capitalism play with one another.

    Case in point, the South African Apartheid legislation enacted in 1948 was both a consequence of colonial occupation and a means by which to extend the waning authority of Afrikaners over an increasingly large native colored populace. By establishing a racial caste system, Apartheidists were able to divide and conquer locals for decades. What ultimately ended the regime was a cross-race coalition of young people, acting both domestically and internationally, to undermine the economic roots of the apartheid system. And the end of apartheid brought a host of socialist reforms

    So while it is absurd to simply ignore capitalism as a social ill, it is not unfair to highlight white supremacy and the role it plays in forestalling both democratic and revolutionary social reform.

    If you wanted to get really smug, you could assert that "Misinformation" is a direct product of the capitalist private information networks and march in there calling out the deplorables that plague every major news magazine and cable outlet in popular circulation.