Capital has been deliberately deployed to sustain racial states even against capital’s own interests

Evidence

In these attempted assertions, though, racial states paradoxically divide by rule and so destabilize the very order they supposedly are designed to produce. In subjecting to (and through) race, states race subjection and so too cohere the response, reaction, and resistance by the terms through which they seek to repress. In insisting on the universalizing rationality of raced regulation, racial states delimit rationality to that of race, thus racially inscribing rationality and circumscribing reasonableness. In insisting on racial order, they impose racial violence upon the very violence they claim to be staving off, thus rattling the order they are seeking to reproduce. In the final solution, to rule racial brutes that are brutish by state assumption - brutes, as Hobbes at the dawn of the modern state insisted, are those the modern state must necessarily exclude from its domain - the brutes must all be exterminated, materially or symbolically: and this in the name of - executed by - the written law of the state. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1729 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Opposing capital on its own moral-rational terms serves it. — Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation, 57; Racial states act on political logic even at economic cost to capital — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1693; Capital initially opposed job color bars but capitulated to white worker pressure and racism (+12 more)

Broader Connections

• Racial states destabilize the very order they seek to impose #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1729