2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Sanders: A Man with A Hammer, Who Sees Nails Everywhere [View all]kennetha
(3,666 posts)I'm trying to distill the constellation of competing interests and trying to show that racism and all that isn't the doing of capitalism or the billionaire class.
Marx himself said this, you know. He actually thought that capitalism was an extraordinarily progressive force. He thought that it destroyed all previous systems of oppression -- he was thinking of feudalism and nationalism and all that jazz, less about race -- but capitalism and capitalism alone brought us to the point in history where the very idea of an international workers state was even conceivable.
(But one of the things that Marxist and all influenced by him can't explain is the persistence of all sorts of divisions -- ethnic divisions, racial divisions, which seem to work contrary to economic self-interest.)