Thanks for sharing this illuminating article by Micco Sarno on the
Pradelka- Rabaka - Agozino debate on
the issue of whether or not Marx was
Eurocentric.
Well Carlos Moore in 1972 did not pussyfoot around but came out directly and asked: "Were Marx and Engels White racists?" and to that I
responded that Moore asked the wrong question. The question is not whether Engels and Marx were White Racists but rather, how, given the period of cumulative racism on the part of their European counterparts, how they were able to transcend to such a large extent the prevailing prejudices of their time. They did not completely transcend "the illusions of the epoch" but succeeded in doing so better than many, to a remarkable degree.
Commenting on British colonialism in India, for example, Marx said:
"The profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarism of Bourgeois civilization lies unveiled before our eyes turning from its home where it assumes respectable forms, to the colonies where it goes naked......These are the men of Property, Order, Family and Religion." Marx. Collected Works.vol. 12. pp. 222 - 3.
Another interesting quote:
"......... Labor in the white skin can never free itself as long as labor in the black skin is branded."Capital. Vol one.
GE
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