Reduced to Brutish Nature: On Racism and the Law of Value

IF 0.9 4区 社会学 0 PHILOSOPHY Historical Materialism-Research in Critical Marxist Theory Pub Date : 2023-11-07 DOI:10.1163/1569206x-bja10017
Lukas Egger
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Abstract Following the work of Peter Schmitt-Egner, this article lays out a value-form theoretical approach to racism. During the debates within German Marxism on the reconstruction of the critique of political economy ( Neue Marx-Lektüre ), Schmitt-Egner developed a theory in the 1970s that tries to explain racism with reference to Marx’s analysis of the commodity form and circulation. Thereby he developed a highly original theoretical derivation of racism as an ideological reification of the debased position of colonised labour power in comparison with that of metropolitan workers. The bourgeois ideals of freedom and equality, constituted through commodity circulation, according to Schmitt-Egner, are modified by the nature of the colonial production process and thus negated in the case of the racialised worker. Even if his theory, as I am going to show, has some serious flaws, it helps to make sense of past and current patterns of racist inferiorisation.
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沦为野兽:论种族主义与价值规律
本文在继承彼得·施密特-埃格纳的研究成果的基础上,提出了一种价值形式的种族主义理论方法。在德国马克思主义内部关于重建政治经济学批判(Neue Marx- lekt re)的辩论中,施密特-埃格纳(schmidt - egner)在20世纪70年代发展了一种理论,试图参照马克思对商品形式和流通的分析来解释种族主义。因此,他对种族主义进行了高度原创的理论推导,将其作为殖民地劳动力与大都市工人相比地位低下的意识形态具体化。根据施密特-埃格纳的观点,资产阶级的自由和平等理想,是通过商品流通形成的,被殖民生产过程的性质所修改,因此在种族化工人的情况下被否定了。正如我将要说明的那样,即使他的理论有一些严重的缺陷,它也有助于理解过去和现在的种族主义劣化模式。
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