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Congratulations on derailing yet another meaningful conversation into a one-sided race war.
However, their status only ostensibly depended on the color of their skin. Their function was of course literally to labor for the profits of the southern gentile.
Racism is a byproduct of capitalism. The Black Panthers did not repeat this ad nauseam for no reason.
Who said anything even close to that?
> There's hereditary/genetic components to selfishness, psychopathy, etc. Not every human born will be compatible with a given societal system.
or that?
> Some personalities, whether by evolution or upbringing or personal development, will succeed more in some systems than others.
or that?
All people are inherently good, however all people are inherently social beings. Since capitalism is dominated by humans' relations to capital instead of humans' relations to eachother, the social nature of the human species is repressed, and as such people cannot be their true selves under capitalism.
Capitalists would love nothing more than for you to believe that some of them are good and some of them are bad, which is the guiding narrative behind nearly all capitalist propaganda. In reality, they are humans just like ourselves and the system is to blame.
Sometimes the babysitter gets distracted or gives in for a while, but it always comes back and it always has the final word.
Think again. Anchor was unionized. Stone is not.
No, there isn't. There are merely different stages and the order they come in may vary ever so slightly as they affect one another. Over time, capital always accumulates, exploitation of the working class always tends to increase, and the rate of profit always tends to decrease.
Edit: I suppose it's not as obvious if you only have an American education.