• tags :: COVID-19

• source :: Monthly Review | Racial Capitalism and COVID-19

Notes

• racial capitalism:: the mutually constitutive entanglements of racialized and colonial exploitation within the process of capital accumulation

• The author argues that the accumulation of capitalwould not be possible with out racialized and colonial exploitation

• "The black worker is the founding stone of a new economic system in the 19th century and for the modern world." (paraphrased) --- Du Bois

• Many low-income food production jobs are done by people of color

• Caribbean countries have outperformed the Untied States in terms of handling the virus

• Caribbean nations are peripheral and made dependent on capitalist nations

• The United States has made no effort to manage the virus in prisons, which are majority black