Shared exploitation does not preclude racial antagonisms within a class

Evidence

This begins to explain how ethnic and racial difference can be constructed as a set of economic, political, or ideological antagonisms within a class which is subject to roughly similar forms of exploitation with respect to ownership of and expropriation from the “means of production.” The latter, which has come to provide something of a magical talisman, differentiating the Marxist definition of class from more pluralistic stratification models and definitions, has by now long outlived its theoretical utility when it comes to explaining the actual and concrete historical dynamic within and between different sectors and segments within classes. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 138

Categorization

• XREF: Core mechanism for the Islamophobia module: how racial difference is produced as antagonism within an economically unified class — carries directly into readings on race-thinking and internal class fractures. — connects to: Class antagonism has moved inside each worker rather than between classes — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 74; Shared oil bounty is partitioned into class and racial segregation — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 233; Cross-racial cooperation can succeed despite divergent motives and interests — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 425
• SEED: Angle: the ‘magical talisman’ of means-of-production ownership as an obsolete explanatory anchor for late-capitalist racial dynamics — could drive an essay on why class-reductionist theory fails to read racialized labor segmentation.