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Spot on response to Walzer’s idiocy from @OlufemiOTaiwo and @lastpositivist:
“But why was Walzer spitballing about what ‘racial capitalism’ means in the first place? He could have just asked.” https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-response-to-michael-walzer
“But why was Walzer spitballing about what ‘racial capitalism’ means in the first place? He could have just asked.” https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/a-response-to-michael-walzer
The one thing I might add is that racial capitalism was integral to the capitalism and apartheid debates from the late 60s through the mid 80s in South Africa. 2/5
Some contributors like Martin Legassick even used the term, but conceptually it bridges Eric Williams and CLR James on the one hand, and Stuart Hall on the other 3/5
...especially since Hall’s “Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance” (1980) includes a critique of Harold Wolpe’s 1972 Economy & Society article — the most cited piece ever in SA social science. 4/5
Wolpe proceeded to rethink the relationship between race, capital, and the state in his final book building on Hall. And then there’s Neville Alexander working through these issues under the alias No Sizwe in the 1980s in relation to the national question 5/6
Amazingly, even some of the sharper South African liberals chimed in to the debate in the 1980s like Merle Lipton. Imagine that happening in a US context! 6/6
And apologies for not knowing how to number a thread correctly 
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