[brazzledazzle]

Are you referring to chattel slaves and victims of racial segregation as working people? If so that seems like a very simplistic way to reframe it when their status hinged entirely on the color of their skin. I ask because I may be misreading your comment entirely and I don’t want to be uncharitable in my interpretation.

[111111IIIIIII]

You are misreading, if reading at all. I have no idea what you're responding to. I definitely didn't do that.

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.

[skissane]

> Racism is a byproduct of capitalism.

If that were true, how do you explain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_the_Soviet_Union (calling the Soviet Union "state capitalist" doesn't help here–it threatens to dilute the definition of "capitalist" to the point of meaninglessness; also, many of the Maoist advocates of "the Soviet Union was state capitalist" theory consider Soviet state capitalism to have begun with Stalin's death, yet the worst of Soviet racism, its genocidal excesses of mass deportation and mass murder, the antisemitic Doctors Plot, etc, occurred under Stalin's rule)

Is there any evidence for a correlation between how much capitalism a society has and how much racism it has? I'm not aware of any. Without evidence, it is just an unjustified assertion.