TY - BOOK AU - Gomberg,Paul TI - Anti-racism as communism SN - 9781350257979 AV - HT1521 .G565 2024 KW - Anti-racism KW - United States KW - Communism KW - Equality KW - Income distribution KW - Race relations N1 - Includes bibliographical references (229-242) and index N2 - "Anti-racism is a necessary part of modern political discourse, but too often it excludes the Marxist analysis of class and labor. Paul Gomberg argues that any anti-racism platform must discuss the entrenched inequality created by the capitalist system of exploitative labor relations. In this book, Gomberg re-orientates the history of modern America, to show how racism was built upon the exploitation of slave labor, and how this developed in the modern American polity as entrenched class and race-based discrimination. In particular, the history of the American Communist Party is studied as an example of how without anti-capitalism, racial injustice is reconstructed even through anti-racism campaigning. In this analysis, the only lasting way to establish an anti-racist society is to undo the capitalist system which has entrenched wealth in the hands of white settlers"-- ER -