Boer segregation contradicted itself by needing the labor of the excluded

Evidence

The black slaves in South Africa quickly became the only part of the population that actually worked. Their toil was marked by all the known disadvantages of slave labor, such as lack of initiative, laziness, neglect of tools, and general inefficiency. Their work therefore barely sufficed to keep their masters alive and never reached the comparative abundance which nurtures civilization. It was this absolute dependence on the work of others and complete contempt for labor and productivity in any form that transformed the Dutchman into the Boer and gave his concept of race a distinctly economic meaning. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 505 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalist labor demand contradicts South Africa’s categorical containment strategy. — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 570; British and boer regimes converged on segregation, cheap labor, and racial superiority — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1431; Apartheid spatial removal contradicted capitalist urban labor demands — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 433 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Contempt for labor gave the Boers’ race concept economic meaning. #complicates (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 505