Our superpowers (empathy, making culture) can be weaponized for the powers that be…
Because those things are intertwined, I’d argue.
But capitalism as a culture has never avoided racism. It was built on the backs of people who were stolen and enslaved, and that enslavement was justified because they happened to have more melanin than other people…
That old antisemitic trope was both used to argue for and against capitalism, though, among fascists. They publicly oppose capitalism, but also communism. But their ACTIONS tell us that they want the profits of capitalism to accrue to only a few elites, not to destroy the capitalist system. Just look at who is funding these movements today (Thiel, Musk, almost the whole billionaire class, etc).
I’m not sure I get your point here?
But again, fascists never really reject capitalism, only seek to bend it to their will, so they blame some outgroup (usually Jewish people) to get the masses to back their genocidal program, so that they can keep accruing the benefits of the capitalist system to themselves. If people are distracted by “those people” and eliminating them in order to “purify” society, then they aren’t looking to those that are doing the actual oppressing.
Just look at what Vance is doing in this campaign. It’s TEXTBOOK fascist strategy. He’s an acolyte of Thiel, and look what sort of racist shit he’s stirring up in Ohio. He’s not stupid. He knows it’s a lie. He knows that immigrants are not a threat to American jobs. He knows that the Haitian community is not eating pets and that they’re in Springfield legally. But he’s actively distracting from who is funding Trump’s campaign, and who is seeking to emiserate all of us for their own economic gains.
