Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities by Paul Camy Mocombe Carol Tomlin Cecile Wright

Author:Paul Camy Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Cecile Wright [Paul Camy Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Cecile Wright]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Sociology, General, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Black Studies (Global)
ISBN: 9780367601089
Google: LNYDnAEACAAJ
Goodreads: 53910464
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-15T00:58:27+00:00

KARL MARX AND LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

Within the Althusserian (Marxian) conception of the constitution and reproduction of contemporary societies outlined above, the class identities and practices (re)produced via education and the media as ideological apparatuses for the economic conditions of global capital under American corporate hegemony are contemporarily twofold: the multiethnic, multicultural, multisexual, multiracial, etc., upper-class of owners and high-level executives who own and control the means and forces of production via their work in and through corporations; and the multiethnic, multicultural, multisexual, multiracial, etc., workers, social actors of nation-states, who are differentiated by social relations of production and own nothing but their labor power and cultural, ethnic, sexual, racial, etc., resources required by corporate capital, and work for them, and are embourgeoised, via education, the media, and other ideological apparatuses, with the wants, desires, and needs of the multiethnic, multicultural, multisexual, multiracial, etc., upper-class of owners and high-level executives so that they can achieve economic gain, upward mobility, and status in the society.

In other words, in keeping with Karl Marx’s class duality in the capitalist constitution of society, what has been reproduced under the auspices of corporate capitalist relations of production since the 1960s is a twofold class structure in which the multiethnic, multicultural, multisexual, multiracial, etc., upper-class of owners and high-level executives of corporations are the bearers of ideological and linguistic domination whose ideas, individual freedoms, human rights, multiculturalism, equality of opportunity, recognition, and distribution, etc., and language are reified and reproduced via education, the media, and other institutions or ideological apparatuses under their control in order to name (interpellate) and teach (embourgeois) the multiracial, multicultural, multisexual, etc., underclass workers or social actors of nation-states the ideas, practices, and language skills required to achieve economic gain, upward mobility, and status in the social relations of production of the Protestant capitalist world-system. This class dualism, reproduced predominantly via ideological apparatuses such as the media and education under the control of corporations that direct the social relations of production, of capitalist society differs from Marx’s earlier conception in that whereas Marx was speaking about the personal nature of power or owner-entrepreneurs (capitalists) who owned the means of production juxtaposed against the individual non-owners (proletariat) who possessed only their labor power in the marketplace, in the contemporary postindus-trial corporate world, the multiethnic, multicultural, multisexual, multiracial, etc., upper-class of owners and high-level executives of corporations, which separates owners and managers, becomes the bearer of ideological and linguistic domination over the individual capitalist, workers, and society by serving as a collective intelligence and power that institutionalizes and directs the ideas, needs, and practices of individuals and their societies in order to be aligned with the ideas, practices, and profit needs of corporations under American hegemony (Bell, 1976; Harvey, 1989; Giddens, 1990; Jameson, 1991; Arrighi, 1994; Sklair, 2001; Kellner, 2001).

This institutionalization and collectivization of the needs of the individual and society to be syncretized with the economic needs of corporations to grow and earn more profit establish the ideas and language, individual human rights and freedoms, multiculturalism, etc.

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