Structurally different racial labor positions invalidate calls to unite and fight

Evidence

Wolpe also recognizes the Rex brings forward a point of great theoretical interest by his reference to the form of the “political compromise” between the white capitalist and the white working classes, and the consequent “supervising and policing” functions which white labor exerts over black. It follows from this that some of the more simplistic political recipes based on the call for “black” and “white” labor to sink their differences in a common and general class struggle against capital—the famous call to “unite and fight”—are abstract political demands, based on theoretically unsound foundations, since they do not adequately grasp the structurally different relations in which “white” and “black” labor stand in relation to capital. — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 601

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Racialized labor positions connect to ‘Complaints About Immodesty Go Way Back’ insofar as both treat surface categories as signifying deep structural distinctions.
• XREF: Connects on racial-capitalism literature and critiques of color-blind class universalism. — connects to: Solidarity among workers is constructed through shared struggle rather than pre-existing. — Donatella della Porta et al., Mobilizing Against the Odds: Solidarity…, 31; Biracial unions drove northern desegregation but their decline splintered liberal-labor alliances — Kevin M. Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of…, 39