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You can't discuss racism without discussing capitalism, the two are inextricably linked. Juneteenth is a holiday built on the emancipation of black people in America from slavery, which was *drumroll* a capitalist institution
Slavery is the highest, most pure form of capitalism- the reduction of human to machine, unimpeded extraction of wealth from the body. Every other form/manifestation of capitalism is built on, or working toward, a state of society more-or-less equivalent to the American slave era
When people talk about how America is built on slavery & exploitation... this is the shit we're talking about. The creation of a subclass of Have-Not humans allowed to be dehumanized so that the products of their labor can be stolen by a class of Haves.
It is not something that can be deconstructed in a day, or perhaps even a lifetime, but there is a reason that antiracism and anticapitalism are linked. To understand, to *truly* understand, American racism, you have to understand capitalism.
I have far more respect for the anticapitalist who is less learned on racism than I do for the "antiracist" who doesn't understand how deeply capitalism & racism are intertwined. The former is working toward antiracism, even if they cannot articulate it; the latter is not.
Anyway happy Juneteenth, the police are not workers, they serve capitalism, police abolition & anticapitalist work comes from the same grand tradition of anti-slavery abolitionists of the 1800s. Defund, abolish, prosecute. https://www.8toabolition.com/
