To End Racism and Police Brutality, End Capitalism!

[nadinbrzezinski]

131. Just an FYI. Marx would not recognize a lot of the

neo-Marxists.

I read it in college. They have many insights, but the OP is stuck on something that even they would have an issue with.

Yup, mostly the British school is useful to understand colonialism, but most of them would not take this wild step. Modern day Slavery is a product primarily of mercantilism, as well as very early European colonialism, well before capitalism was a twinkle in anybody's understanding ...why this reductionist shit really bothers me.

For the record...capitalism is dead or dying already. We are in the same kind period of transition as Smith was when he wrote the Weslth. What comes next IMHO has a lot of common with mercantilism actually. This is a matter of discussion in graduate seminars, not the business pages, ergo they get complicated. In many ways Marx is the bookend to the wealth of nations as well. And Marx would not recognize this argument of his either.

I will not bother anymore with the OP. Stretching things like this when we have traditional cultures where structural forms of racism have existed well before mercantilism, or capitalism, India is a prime example, makes my head hurt.