Capitalist states regulate migration, demography, and crime in racial terms

Evidence

Restrictions on capital movement and on the class of financial managers guaranteeing tapital flows increasingly have evaporated. At the same time, traffic cop states have maintained more or less firm restrictions on the movement and mobility of those marked as ethnoracially different or threatening: “Muslim or Arab terrorists,” “helpless (if not sometimes murderous) Africans,” “economically challenged or trafficking Central Americans,” “over-abundant Asians,” and indeed any and all mis-taken for these cut-out characters. — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 142 (#expands, via linked claim)

Racism, in classic socialist form, has been traditionally regarded largely as an epiphenomenon ideologically rationalizing class conflict. As Foucault remarks with characteristic flair and insight, nevertheless, state socialisms are as prone to biological (or, we might add, cultural) racism in identifying and incarcerating criminals, the mentally ill, and political enemies as capitalist states have been. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1153 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Capitalist power infected and colonized state, deliberative, and propaganda powers. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 839; Racial states regulate labor, demographics, and crime as core functions — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1665; Racial states govern by both spatial-social restriction and criminalization — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1690 (+17 more)

Broader Connections

• States free capital mobility while restricting the movement of racialized people #expands (0.92) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 142
• State socialist regimes engaged in racism as readily as capitalist ones #complicates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1153