| This is quite common, indeed. But the only solution is to build grassroots cooperatives that do not work for money. Historically, racism and slavery by the European nations started as a means of doing more business exploiting people who were precisely considered not to be people back then (notably by the Catholic church). These intersections between racism and capitalism (and many more oppression schemes) are now well-studied, but they still exist. In France, where nazism is slowly winning the battle on the political spectrum (with the fascist party gaining votes and the socialist ruling party adopting an incredibly authoritarian and nationalist stance), there's a resurgence of both racist and capitalist feelings : - veiled women can be insulted on the streets, cops beat up refugees and rroma kids, many youths feel like the Jews are responsible for capitalism - "working more for earning more", "you get what you deserve", the recent exploitative labour-law reforms And this is not just about France, look at what's happening in the US, in the UK, in Germany, Spain, Mexico, Turkey, Japan Everywhere, the bigots and the exploiters are allying to stop any alternative to this fucked up society. Now is the time to stop doing business, and attack capitalism and racism FRONTALLY. |