Unity and Struggle (Pt. 3) : Slavery, Capitalism, and Wage Labor

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 5 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is the third installment in our new and ongoing collaboration with Unity and Struggle. This Rev Left mini-series will trace and engage with the development of Unity and Struggle's deep study of race through the lens of Marxist historical and dialectical materialism.

In this third edition, Breht is joined by Eve and Enzo to cover free and unfree labor, slavery, its relation to capitalism, and more.

Check out, and contribute to, Unity and Struggle's study here: http://www.unityandstruggle.org/2019/11/racestudypart1/

Check out more from Unity and Struggle here: http://www.unityandstruggle.org/

Follow them on twitter @unityandstrug

Intro Clip by Means TV featuring Mond Jones. You can find that video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uP3-dQHJjFo

Outro Music: 'Stuck in the South' by Adia Victoria.

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0:00.0	The relationship between capitalism, race, exploitation, and colonialism is a mutually
0:06.6	dependent one cannot exist without the other they support each other or require each
0:11.3	other to function.
0:14.1	Capitalism is an economic system we have now.
0:19.8	We go to work for some major corporations, spend the majority of our day working and
0:23.9	take home just enough to feed ourselves.
0:26.8	Another success within the capitalist system can be broken down into a basic two-part
0:31.2	formula.
0:32.2	Maximized profits, minimized costs.
0:35.0	The people at the top make the profit.
0:37.2	The minimizer costs by paying you as little as legally possible.
0:40.8	Pay workers as little as possible, sprinkling a little bit of racism and you got the American
0:45.7	drink.
0:46.7	So how does that relate to colonialism?
0:48.6	Historically, colonialism was when white European nations went into Africa and what is now
0:53.6	the Americans and the Caribbean, set up shop, stole a bunch of shit, enslaved entire communities,
0:59.7	and then claimed the land is their own.
1:01.6	This history of colonial exploitation is deeply tied to our current situation in America today.
1:06.8	Modern capitalism was not built because of some weird Anglo-Western exceptionalism
1:11.5	or superiority.
1:12.9	This level of development and industrialization in the West happened so quickly because
1:17.2	it was little to no money being spent when it came to the workers.
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