Sectional race-based struggle itself is the site of capital’s continuing hegemony

Evidence

Capital reproduces class relations, including their internal contradictions, as a whole, structured by race. It dominates the divided class, in part, through those internal divisions which have racism as one of its effects. It contains and disables representative class institutions, by neutralizing them, confining them to strategies and struggles which are race-specific, which do not surmount its limits, its barrier. … The sectional struggles, articulated through race, instead, continue to appear as the necessary defensive strategies of a class divided against itself, face-to-face with capital. They are, therefore, also the site of capital’s continuing hegemony over it. This is certainly not to treat racism as, in any simply sense, the product of an ideological trick. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 637

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels divide-and-rule dynamics the reader knows from imperial histories and from the Frankfurt School account of fascism.