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A new analysis of racism builds on the best of Marxist theory (particularly Antonio Gramsci’s focus on the cultural and ideological spheres), and yet it goes beyond by incorporating three key assumptions:

1. Cultural practices, including racist discourses and actions, have multiple power functions (such as domination over non-Europeans) that are neither reducible to nor intelligible in terms of class exploitation alone. In short these practices have a reality of their own and cannot simply be reduced to an economic base.

2. Cultural practices are the medium through which selves are produced. We are who and what we are owing primarily to cultural practices. The complex process of people shaping and being shaped by cultural practices involves the use of language, psychological factors, sexual identities, and aesthetic conceptions that cannot be adequately grasped by a social theory primarily focused on modes of production at the macrostructural level.

3. Cultural practices are not simply circumscribed by modes of production; they also are bounded by civilizations. Hence, cultural practices cut across modes of production. (For example, there are forms of Christianity that exist in both precapitalist and capitalist societies.) An analysis of racist practices in both premodern and modern Western civilization yields both continuity and discontinuity. Even Marxism can be shown to be both critical of and captive to a Eurocentrism that can justify racist practices. Although Marxist theory remains indispensable, it obscures the manner in which cultural practices, including notions of “scientific” rationality, are linked to particular ways of life.

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Socialist Theory of Racism, Cornel West (via cosmopolitan-fascist)

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darksilenceinsuburbia:

From Leshii (Woodgoblin) No. 2, 1906

Blood and Laughter: Caricatures from the 1905 Revolution - illustrations of the 1905-1906 Russian underground press.

Via

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Is Death Bad for You? →

midcenturia:

The Jaywalker, UPA cartoon, 1955. via

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nobodysdiary:

weatherwax: Sigrid Sandstrom, Untitled, 2011, Acrylic on board, 12.5” x 9.75”

nobodysdiary:

jawns: installation shot from Borna Sammak, JEFF COLD BEER at JTT NYC 170A Suffolk St up now through June 10th, 2012, wednesday through sunday, 12 to 7 PM

Brian Fairbairn: Skwerl

"Wandering in a vast forest at night, I have only a faint light to guide me. A stranger appears and says to me: ‘My friend, you should blow out your candle in order to find your way more clearly.’ This stranger is a theologian."

Diderot

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