Thread by @RedPrecariat

🧵: Race is commonly used to soothe the angst caused by the void of positive determination, but it can never fill it because Race is just as much a negation of concrete humanity as the bourgeois formalism of universal equality.

Race is an abstraction of real communal being.

https://twitter.com/lucaspcdias/status/1946486634758783141

The modern concept of Race has its origins in the Atlantic slave trade, with Blackness developing as a retroactive justification for the profitable act of ripping people from their homelands and turning them into cattle.

The utility of dehumanization gave rise to its ideology.

The diverse nations and tribes of West Africa, with their many languages, religions, and traditions, were severed from their history and reduced to a universal abstraction derived from the passive trait of skin color.

When an Igbo or Fula was enslaved, they became Black.

In contrast to the active abstraction of Blackness, Whiteness developed as a passive abstraction of European settler communities in response to Blackness and its material antecedent in slavery.

Whiteness has always been more nebulous because it lacks a definite class basis.

In general, and before Northern states started abolishing slavery, Black = slave and White = not slave. Whites could be planters, merchants, yeomen, or indentured servants. The overwhelming majority of Blacks were slaves.

This is why Blacks have more "racial unity" than Whites.

Whiteness became a universal but passive abstraction of US society as a whole, and Blackness became a particular and active abstraction of a concrete community in US society.

This history of America post-1776 is in part defined by the integration of that community with society.

Race persists as an ideological form to this day, but it no longer corresponds to a real class contradiction. The Civil Rights movement resulted in the unification of the ex-slave ("Black") class alliance with bourgeois ("White") society, the vestiges of racism notwithstanding.

In a broad sense, Whites and Blacks are on the same American boat now. The poor have been ravaged by deindustrialization and drug epidemics, the PMC is yapping about airy bullshit, and the rich are pedophile degenerates.

Civil Rights - Communism = Intersectional Diddy Parties.

This brings us back to the necessity of discovering a positive determination for the American Republic's universal abstraction (i.e. "We the People...") of its concrete citizens.

Race can not negate the negation of 1776 because both are negations of the same communal being.

Revolutionary Black Nationalism might have been able to do that in the past, but its concrete basis in the popular front between Black Americans of all classes and the Left was dissolved by the fruits of the Civil Rights movement—moderate (bourgeois) integration and PMC DEI.

Black Nationalism today either takes the form of cosmopolitan LARP by Black Trotskyites or FBA nativism, which are reflections of White cosmopolitanism and nativism.

Race politics reinforce the unipolar status quo, or they turn the US into a giant Syria.

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The positive determination of America will be uncovered in the concrete unity of Americans.

Race politics are driven by the bourgeois impulse to divide and destroy all that is real through the abstract rationalization (Cogito, ergo sum) of everything into commodities.

Identity politics under American hegemony are the commodification of individuality at the expense of social being.

Proletarian politics, Communism, is the real movement to uncover the material unity of social being with its particular forms at the site of their (re)production.

Negation of the negation, or positive determination, transforms an abstract universal at odds with its real particulars into a *concrete universal* in unity with its particulars.

The "Great American Republic" of 1776 can only be made concrete as a Communist American Republic.