Marxist critique of theory of racism

V diplomskem delu se skozi kritiko teorij rasizma ukvarjam z nastavki za marksistično teorijo rasizma. V ospredju kritike stoji naturalizacija rasizma in pojmovanje le-tega kot ideoloških konstruktov, ki so v odnosu do realnega sveta lažni. V nasprotju s tem sama do rasizma pristopam kot do označevalcev manjvrednosti, ki se nanašajo na dejanske materialne razlike in na neenaka razmerja moči, značilna za razredno razslojene družbe. Izhajajoč iz specifično kapitalistične ločitve ekonomskega od političnega, trdim, da rasizem šele v kapitalizmu postane samostojna dominacija in ne le legitimacija družbene hierarhije, utemeljene na pripisanih statusih. Ob afirmiranju rasizma kot samostojne dominacije kritiziram pristope, ki rasizem vidijo kot strukturo, ki obstaja ob kapitalistični. Hkrati zavrnem idejo, po kateri je kapitalistični uvrednotevalni proces prostor nevtralne ekonomske logike, v kateri predsodki ne igrajo nobene vloge. Rasizem v kontekstu uvrednotevalnega procesa opredelim kot nižjo ceno delovne sile dela delavskega razreda, ki je pojasnljiva samo v kontekstu že obstoječe družbene razslojenosti. Kapitalistična vrednost tako ni inherentno rasistična, kot da bi bila rasistični subjekt, vendar kljub temu reproducira neenakost kot posledico preteklega produkcijskega cikla.In this thesis I deal with a critique of theories of racism, through which I present some foundations for a Marxist theory of racism. The focus of my critique is on the naturalisation of racism conceived as a set of ideological constructs, which are false in relation to the real world. In contrast, I argue that racism involves signifiers of inferiority, which refer to actual material differences and unequal relations of power characteristic of class societies. Taking into account the specifically capitalist differentiation of the economic from the political, I argue that racism only becomes an independent form of domination in capitalism, rather than merely a legitimation of social hierarchies based on ascribed statuses. While affirming racism as an autonomous form of domination, I criticise approaches that see racism as a structure standing alongside the capitalist structure. At the same time, I renounce idea of the capitalist valorisation process as a place of neutral economic logic free of prejudice. In the context of the valorisation process, I define racism as a lower price of labour power of part of the working class, which can be understood only in the context of pre-existing social stratification. Capitalist value is therefore not inherently racist, as if it were a racist subject, but it nevertheless reproduces inequality as a consequence of previous production cycles