https://classletters.org/tags/ideology/Recent content in Ideology on Class LettersHugoen-usSun, 24 Sep 2023 02:47:39 +0000https://classletters.org/posts/adolph-reed-jr/marx_race_neoliberalism/Sun, 24 Sep 2023 02:47:39 +0000https://classletters.org/posts/adolph-reed-jr/marx_race_neoliberalism/<p>A Marxist perspective can be most helpful for understanding race and racism insofar as it perceives capitalism dialectically, as a social totality that includes modes of production, relations of production, and the pragmatically evolving ensemble of institutions and ideologies that lubricate and propel its reproduction. From this perspective, Marxism’s most important contribution to making sense of race and racism in the United States may be demystification. A historical materialist perspective should stress that “race”—which includes “racism,” as one is unthinkable without the other—is a historically specific ideology that emerged, took shape, and has evolved as a constitutive element within a definite set of social relations anchored to a particular system of production.</p>