Capitalists deploy racism to fracture labor movements into competing factions

Evidence

In its struggle with labor, it could activate racism to divide the labor movement into antagonistic forces. Moreover, the permutations of the instrument appeared endless: Black against white; Anglo-Saxon against southern and eastern European; domestic against immigrant; proletariat against share-cropper; white American against Asian, Black, Latin American, and so on. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 960

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to divide-and-conquer dynamics of racialized labor in other readings on working-class fragmentation and the Black radical tradition. — connects to: Coal operators imported strikebreakers to defeat unionized native workers — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 274