#+title: Racial Capitalism and COVID-19
- tags :: [[file:../20201202215710-covid_19.org][COVID-19]]
- source :: [[https://monthlyreview.org/2021/03/01/racial-capitalism-and-covid-19/][Monthly Review | Racial Capitalism and COVID-19]]

* Notes
- [[file:../20210403151224-racial_capitalism.org][racial capitalism]] :: the mutually constitutive entanglements of racialized
  and colonial exploitation within the process of capital accumulation
- The author argues that [[file:../20210321201247-the_accumulation_of_capital.org][the accumulation of capital]] would 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) --- [[file:../20200709205258-w_e_b_du_bois.org][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