| Marxism (4747 words) |
 | The general agreement is that Karl Marx and the Marxists who followed him were economic "reductionists"--that is, they reduce social questions, from whatever realm of life, to a matter of economics and tend to ignore or downplay issues that aren’t immediately related to the class struggle. |
| That doesn’t mean we believe oppression is a myth, or that oppression should only be understood as a simple reflection of economics, or that these different realms don’t need to be understood on their own terms. |
| Again, it must be stressed that to identify economics as the primary factor that led to the development of racism doesn’t mean that racism as a system of oppression hasn’t taken on a life of its own and in turn shaped the development of capitalism--sometimes in absolutely decisive ways, such as apartheid South Africa. |
Feeds |
Contact