Capitalism is self-perpetuating because it reifies those ancient & unjust systems of racial & gender and ecological /geographic/socioeconomic disparities. Capitalism is only the industrializing & technological momentum of imperialism & colonialism. Many of the same families own massive wealth that were calling shots under Antebellum slave economies & even further back during the feudal period. Ultranationalistic & expansionist white Xtian supremacy is what global capitalism now protects.

I didn’t say that “racism is bad because of capitalism”. Nor would I. I only quoted Stokely who himself was a Pan-Africanist and BPP leader and was far more experienced on these things than I am. He makes the point that we can’t hack everyone’s brain and make them “good” or erase all of their evil cultural indoctrination & incorrect thoughts, because certain people are going to think what they think, but we can shout them down AND disempower them. But it’s only through attacking & changing the legitimating regimes of authority that this can be curtailed in a place like the imperial core.

If enough people in society shift toward attacking the power structure, then the society is less able to reify all of these ancient backward habits and reactionary tendencies people acquire over their lives.

Slavery in the Colonial Americas was at the end of the day a conscious economic decision by planters & investors. White supremacist regimes of power & nonsense tropes and poisonous abusive thought processes were consciously forced & seeded among populations who otherwise would have “creolized” as happened in specific remote areas in the Americas.

The class structure reifies racial & gender “differences” and “ability” and cishet normativity, because those are primary axes of oppression that capitalism functions & exploits upon. As was true in imperial/colonial and feudal eras.

When we see the ways that imperialism & the labor-aristocracy functions within the US, we know that labor exploitation in the periphery will always set the working poor in overexploited Global South countries against one another in those same old ways.