Re: global apartheid

Wed, 16 Jul 1997 19:11:43 -0400
David Lloyd-Jones (dlj@pobox.com)

Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> writes:
>
>I can see the point that the term "global apartheid" has the potential to
>move the focus a bit off of class. However, apartheid is also an economic
>relation. Racism is used as a mechanism to secure cheap labor pools and
>control over the working class. If we can, at the same time we use this
>term, communicate the material basis for the continued existence of racism
>(an ideology used to legitimate the "North-South" relation) we might then
>have both a good sound bite and a mechanism to reveal the more brutal
>aspects of exploitation.
>

And if there is no evidence for the existence of such institutional racism,
we can be good scientists, mathematics being the Queen of the Sciences, and
assume it into existence.

-dlj.