• The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      capitalism isn’t new, it’s just a way of defining a system in which one group of people has things and then another group of people uses the things to provide for society. we’ve all been dealing with capitalism for ~16,000 years, we just haven’t been using the terms of capital to understand how or why our oppressors do the things that they do.

      racism, ultimately, in our current understanding of it, is much much newer than capitalism, and it was formulated as a justification for the aims of the capital holders to go out into the world and steal more capital and further entrench an economic system in which they owned everything and produced nothing.

  • halfdane@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    While that sounds convincing, I’m not entirely sure if it’s accurate: deciding on the target of oppression, which isn’t a small part of discrimination, seems to be certainly something that comes from attitude.

    I don’t consider myself an expert on this matter, so I’m happy to get educated.

    [edit: typo]