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Interconnection of Class and Race with Capitalism
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SYSNO ASEP 0504646 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Interconnection of Class and Race with Capitalism Author(s) Brabec, Martin (FLU-F) SAI, ORCID Source Title Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. - : Brill - ISSN 1569-1500
Roč. 18, 1/2 (2019), s. 36-46Number of pages 11 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country NL - Netherlands Keywords capitalism ; exploitation ; oppression ; race ; social class Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion OECD category Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 UT WOS 000457993000004 EID SCOPUS 85060996545 DOI 10.1163/15691497-12341503 Annotation This paper focuses on the globally important issue – conceptual and causal distinctions between class and race relations from the perspective of political and economic philosophy. Some contemporary theories treat these two forms oppression symmetrically. But detailed analysis shows that the social relations within them have very different dynamics. In general, in the case of race relations there may be non-exploitative oppression, whereas in the case of class relations there is exploitation. These distinct relations with their specific characteristics also have very different impacts on the behavior of social agents and groups, their life opportunities and forms of social conflict. There are causal relations between race and social class, on the one hand, but on the other hand, there are also conceptual distinctions between them. The relation between them is captured neither by treating race as an epiphenomenon of class relations nor by treating race as entirely autonomous from class. Also if we want to understand how racial hierarchies reproduce class relations, we have to understand the basic requirements of modern class reproduction itself, as distinct from the rules for reproduction that govern other social forms. The extraction of surplus value from wage-labourers takes place in a relationship between formally free and equal individuals and does not presuppose differences in juridical or political status. In fact, there is a positive tendency in capitalism to undermine such differences, and even to dilute identities like gender or race, as capital strives to absorb people into the labour market and to reduce them to interchangeable units of labour abstracted from any specific identity. On the other hand, capitalism is very flexible in its ability to make use of, as well as to discard, particular social oppressions. Part of the problematic news is that it is likely to co-opt whatever extra-economic oppressions are historically and culturally available in any given setting. Such cultural legacies can, for example, promote the ideological hegemony by disguising its inherent tendency to create under-classes. The article explains these issues in their complex relations. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2020 Electronic address https://brill.com/view/journals/pgdt/18/1-2/article-p36_5.xml
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