Race-Religion-Ethnicity-Caste: Focal Point of the Global Class Struggle

• In Event: 121 - Section on Marxist Sociology Refereed Roundtable Session and Business Meeting
  In Refereed Roundtable 60min: Table 02. Struggle

Abstract

From immigrant struggles in Europe to religious sectarianism and ethnic -"racial" conflict world-wide, caste divisions in South Asia and the confluence of all these in Africa, the superexploitation and concomitant political suppression of various minorities remains both the sharpest expression of capitalist exploitation and political oppression and the inseparable Achilles' Heel of capitalism. Rejecting both simple economic class reductionism and non-class autonomous explanations, a Marxist theoretical and activist approach must embrace the struggles of those groups, not out of charity, but out of recognition that these struggles are part of the class struggle, in fact, the sharpest edge of the class struggle.

Author

• Alan Jay Spector