tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984483241585303749.post7604138527430614439..comments2023-11-03T04:02:50.213-04:00Comments on How sickly seem all growing things: Reconceiving Race and CapitalChris Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14364071049767652706noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984483241585303749.post-17336869400207909492017-04-27T09:20:11.158-04:002017-04-27T09:20:11.158-04:00Dear Noel,
If I exaggerate the importance of that...Dear Noel,<br /><br />If I exaggerate the importance of that article's, yours or Race Traitor's scope of influence, it is because, as harsh as the comment may seem, I found your work liberatory as a fundamental break with orthodox Marxist treatments. It had a significant influence on me (which is no doubt why almost 20 years later I am still engaging with it). I guess it is my assumption that anyone with a serious intellectual engagement with racialization must be directly or indirectly influenced by your work, though as you say that may exaggerate your influence.<br /><br />I did not mean to imply that you agreed with Ted Allen's thesis, but that despite your differences there was something of a common problem. Even that might be going too far, and if you can clarify, I would certainly be open to reconsidering that view. Also, thank you for the link.Chris Wrighthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14364071049767652706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984483241585303749.post-59317069391544325192017-04-27T09:09:18.553-04:002017-04-27T09:09:18.553-04:00My comments here are not intended as a general res...My comments here are not intended as a general response to Chris Wright (or to Jehu) but to two points that relate directly to me: 1) Chris says that my discussion of the relation between whiteness and American character (“Immigrants and Whites,” Race Traitor 3) opened the way for the liberalism associated with “privilege theory.” (He made the same point in an earlier paper.) He may be right, although I think he exaggerates its (and my) importance. I wrote the piece as I was beginning a PhD in the History of American Civilization, and it is possible that I was accommodating myself to the field. Please don’t hold it against me. It should not be taken as representative of Race Traitor’s view. 2) It has been many years since I have accepted Ted Allen’s view of the white-skin privilege system as the result of a conscious decision on the part of the ruling class. For a statement of my difference with Ted on this point, see http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php/20140216083313226noel ignatievhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14671145640505869968noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2984483241585303749.post-45790801213385271002017-04-26T11:27:47.009-04:002017-04-26T11:27:47.009-04:00Great analysis! can i repost this on the communist...Great analysis! can i repost this on the communists in situ site eventually?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com